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4 definitions found 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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