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The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.
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Semen; the generative substance of male animals.
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Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti.
Examples of sperms in a Sentence
In subsequent generations produced by self-fertilization of the hybrids it was found that the positive character was not present in all the individuals, but that a result was obtained showing that in the formation of the reproductive cells (ova and sperms) of the hybrid, half were endowed with the positive character and half with the negative.
The coelom opens to the exterior by ducts which are primarily genital ducts by which the ova or sperms are discharged.
Pollination having been effected, and the pollen-grain having reached the stigma in angio sperms or the summit of the nucellus in mnos erms P gY P it is detained there, and the viscid secretion from the glands of the stigma in the former case, or from the nucellus in the latter, induce the protrusion of the intine as a pollen-tube through the pores of the grain.
Male germ-line stem cells are cells that proliferate throughout the life of the animal to make male germ cells or sperms.