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‖ ˈsperma Now rare.
Pl. spermata.
[a. L. sperma or Gr. σπέρµα: see sperm n.]
Sperm; seed.
14..[see sperm n.1]. 1527Andrew Brunswyke's Dist. Waters M iij, The same water is good and multyplyeth the sperma. 1597A. M. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 3 b/2 The patient can nether retayne his vrine, Sperma, or Stole. 1600Pory tr. Leo's Africa 344 Whether the said Amber be the sperma or the excrement therof, they cannot well determine. 1668Phil. Trans. III. 790 Here have been Sperma-Ceti-Whales driven upon the shore, which Sperma (as they call it) lies all over the Body of those Whales. 1728Chambers Cycl., Sperm or Sperma, the Seed whereof an Animal is form'd. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxvii. 350 By the mixture and mutual neutralization or solution of different spermata. 1886Lond. Q. Rev. Oct. 129 Basilides is said to have spoken of a ‘sperma’ or seed-mass, from which all things have been produced. |