Spermatozoon

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell, zoosperm.
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  • n. The reproductive cell or gamete of the male, carried in semen, that fertilizes the ovum to produce the zygote.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as spermatozoid.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of the numberless microscopic bodies contained in semen, to which the seminal fluid owes its vitality, and which are the immediate and active means of impregnating or fertilizing the ovum of the female; a spermatic cell or filament; a spermatozoan or spermatozooid.
  • n. A genus of animalcules.
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  • n. the male reproductive cell; the male gamete
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gamete   
    Variant
    spermatozoa    spermatozoid   
    Form
    spermatozoal    spermatozoic   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sperm cell    zoosperm   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    genioglossus    spermatozoa    erelong    reject    abercrombie    granulation    breadcrumb    ovum   
     
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