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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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; 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 o["o]spore.
In Zo["o]l., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells
of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells
of higher forms.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sperm \Sperm\, n.[F. sperme, L. sperma, Gr ???, ???, from ????
to sow. Cf {Spore}.] (Physiol.)
The male fecundating fluid; semen. See {Semen}.
{Sperm cell} (Physiol.), one of the cells from which the
spermatozoids are developed.
{Sperm morula}. (Biol.) Same as {Spermosphere}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sperm \Sperm\, n.[Contr. fr spermaceti.]
Spermaceti.
{Sperm oil}, a fatty oil found as a liquid, with spermaceti,
in the head cavities of the sperm whale.
{Sperm whale}. (Zo["o]l.) See in the Vocabulary.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sperm
n : the male reproductive cell; the male gamete [syn: {sperm
cell}, {spermatozoon}]
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