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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Anlage, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, bud, egg, embryo, germ, germen, loins, male gamete, milt, nucleus, ovum, pollen, protein, rudiment, scum, seed, semen, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium, spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium, spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa, spermatozoid

Dictionary Results for spermatozoon:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

spermatozoon
    n 1: 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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Spermatozoid \Sper`ma*to*zo"id\, n. [Spermatozoon + Gr. e'i^dos
   form.] (Biol.)
   The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential
   element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like
   particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it
   is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is
   that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate
   threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozoon. In
   plants the more usual term is antherozoid.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Spermatozoon \Sper`ma*to*zo"on\, n.; pl. Spermatozoa. [NL.,
   fr. Gr. ???, sperm + zo^,on an animal.] (Biol.)
   Same as Spermatozoid.
   [1913 Webster]

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