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spermospore

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences

Examples

  • 1880-1881, Francis Maitland Balfour, A Treatise on Comparative Embryology The spermatozoa are formed either by the direct division of the spermospores into a number of cells , spermoblasts , each of which grows into a spermatozoon ; or by the nucleus of the spermospore becoming subdivided within the cell body

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Etymology

From spermo- + spore.