sperm

noun

A male gamete, such as a spermatozoon of an animal or one of the cells or nuclei produced by a pollen grain of a plant.

noun

Semen.

noun

A substance, such as spermaceti, obtained from a sperm whale.

noun

The male seed of any kind, as the semen or seminal fluid of the higher vertebrates, the male spawn or milt of the lower vertebrates, or the seminal elements of any animal, containing the male germs, or spermatozoa.

noun

Same as spermaceti.

noun

A sperm-whale.

noun

Sperm-oil.

noun

The male fecundating fluid; semen. See semen.

noun

one of the cells from which the spermatozoids are developed.

noun

Same as Spermosphere.