'Sperm' definitions:
Definition of 'sperm'
(from WordNet)
noun
The male reproductive cell; the male gamete; "a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material" [syn: sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon, spermatozoan]
Definition of 'Sperm'
From: GCIDE
- Sperm \Sperm\, n.[F. sperme, L. sperma, Gr. ???, ???, from ???? to sow. Cf. Spore.] (Physiol.) The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen. [1913 Webster]
- Sperm cell (Physiol.), one of the cells from which the spermatozoids are developed.
- Sperm morula. (Biol.) Same as Spermosphere. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sperm'
From: GCIDE
- Sperm \Sperm\, n.[Contr. fr. spermaceti.] Spermaceti. [1913 Webster]
- Sperm oil, a fatty oil found as a liquid, with spermaceti, in the head cavities of the sperm whale.
- Sperm whale. (Zool.) See in the Vocabulary. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'sperm'
From: GCIDE
- Gamete \Gam"ete\ (g[a^]m"[=e]t; g[.a]*m[=e]t"; the latter usually in compounds), n. [Gr. gameth` wife, or game`ths husband, fr. gamei^n to marry.] (Biol.) A sexual cell or germ cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oospore. In Zool., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'sperm'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act of love,
- adultery,
- androcyte,
- antheridium,
- antherozoid,
- aphrodisia,
- ass,
- autacoid,
- balling,
- bile,
- carnal knowledge,
- chalone,
- climax,
- cohabitation,
- coition,
- coitus,
- coitus interruptus,
- commerce,
- congress,
- connection,
- copula,
- copulation,
- coupling,
- diddling,
- digestive secretion,
- endocrine,
- fornication,
- gall,
- gastric juice,
- hormone,
- intercourse,
- intestinal juice,
- intimacy,
- lovemaking,
- making it with,
- male gamete,
- marital relations,
- marriage act,
- mating,
- meat,
- milt,
- mucus,
- onanism,
- orgasm,
- ovum,
- pancreatic juice,
- pareunia,
- pollen,
- procreation,
- prostatic fluid,
- protein,
- relations,
- rheum,
- salivary secretion,
- screwing,
- scum,
- seed,
- semen,
- seminal fluid,
- sex,
- sex act,
- sexual climax,
- sexual commerce,
- sexual congress,
- sexual intercourse,
- sexual relations,
- sexual union,
- sleeping with,
- sperm cell,
- spermagonium,
- spermatic fluid,
- spermatid,
- spermatiophore,
- spermatium,
- spermatocyte,
- spermatogonium,
- spermatophore,
- spermatozoa,
- spermatozoid,
- spermatozoon,
- tears,
- thyroxin,
- venery
Words containing 'Sperm'
- Pullet sperm,
- Sperm cell,
- Sperm morula,
- Sperm oil,
- Sperm whale,
- sperm bank,
- sperm count,
- Pygmy sperm whale,
- dwarf sperm whale,
- sperm-filled,
- Sperm-whale porpoise,
- The Denticete including the dolphins and sperm whale which have teeth Another suborder Zeuglodontia is extinct The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea but are now made a separate order