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spermatoˈzoid
[f. as spermatozoal a. + -id, or ad. F. spermatozoïde.]
1. Bot. A minute fertilizing body or cell in Cryptogamia and Algæ.
1857Henfrey Bot. 511 Spermatozoids are filiform bodies of various forms, mostly presenting one or more spiral curves, or minute globules. 1863M. J. Berkeley Brit. Mosses iii. 18 An oblong sac..filled with cellular tissue, each ultimate cell of which..gives birth to a spermatozoid. 1877Heath Fern World 11 The sperm cells contain minute, active, thread-like bodies called spermatozoids.
2. Phys. = next.
1861T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 3) 156 The testicular cæca become filled with granulations,..but these do not contain spermatozoids. 1870H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. 22 A sperm-cell or spermatozoid..is enabled to develop itself into a new individual. |