spermn.

Brit.

/spəːm/, U.S.

/spərm/

Forms: Middle English–1600s sperme, 1500s spearme, sparme, 1600s sparm, 1500s– sperm.

Etymology: < Old French esperme (French sperme), sparme, or Latin sperma (hence also Italian sperma, Spanish esperma, Portuguese esperma), < Greek σπέρμα, < the stem of σπείρειν to sow.

I. Senses relating to generation and procreation.

a. The generative substance or seed of male animals (esp. of vertebrates).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm

seedOE

spermc1386

sperma1527

c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 19 In the feld of Damassene With goddes owene finger wroght was he And nat bigeten of mannes sperme [Harl. MS. sperma] unclene.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) xiii. xxix The whale haþ gret plente of sperme, and after þat he gendreþ with þe female, superfluite þerof fleteþ aboue þe water.

a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 14 Som-tyme þe sperme goþ oute by þe hole of þe ȝerde infistulate.

1526 Grete Herball xxviii. sig. Bv^v/1 Ambre is hote and drye... Some say that it is the sparme of a whale.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 53 I sau hemp that coagulis the flux of the sparme.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xvi. 85 We see, of bread and wine, blood to be made; of blood, sperm or seed.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 330 And thus may it also be in the generation and sperm of Negroes.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Poultry The Cock..rarifies the Egg, and renders it fit to produce its Species by the Sperm or Tread he infuses into it.

1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) V. 361 It hath since been imagined, that pearls must be the eggs or the sperm of the fish inclosed in the shell.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 8 The male shortly afterwards passes over the spawn or hard roe, and discharges upon it his sperm, which we call soft roe or milt.

1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 53 Receptacles which serve for the collection of the sperm.

b. A spermatozoon.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm > spermatozoon

animalcule1686

animalcula1716

zoosperm1824

spermatozoon1836

spermatozoid1861

sperm1904

nemasperm1922

1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Oct. 964 Gametes (eggs and sperms).

1905 G. A. Reid Princ. Heredity xii. 162 If these same sperms reside for a longer time [etc.].

†2.

a. The eggs of insects. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > egg(s)

niteOE

blowing1558

sperm1615

blote1657

1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 44 The red peckled butter-flye doth euer put them [i.e. caterpillars], being her sparm, among the tender spraies for better feeding.

1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 34 A just Description of the Sperm or Eggs (which is entirely answerable to what the Queen lays).

†b. Offspring, brood (of persons). Obsolete. rare.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > progeny or offspring

bairn-teamc885

childeOE

tudderc897

seedOE

teamOE

wastum971

offspringOE

i-cundeOE

fostera1175

i-streonc1175

strainc1175

brooda1300

begetc1300

barm-teamc1315

issuea1325

progenyc1330

fruit of the loinsa1340

bowel1382

young onec1384

suita1387

engendrurea1400

fruitinga1400

geta1400

birth?a1425

porturec1425

progenityc1450

bodyfauntc1460

generation1477

fryc1480

enfantement1483

infantment1483

blood issue1535

propagation1536

offspring1548

race1549

family?1552

increase1552

breed1574

begetting1611

sperm1641

bed1832

fruitage1850

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 57 Let not those wretched Fathers thinke they shall impoverish the Church.., though they keep back their sordid sperm begotten in the lustinesse of their avarice.

3. transferred. The generative matter or source from which anything is formed or takes its origin:

a. Of plants.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > [noun] > generation or evolution > generative matter

sperm1610

1610 J. Davies Vaughan in Wks. (Grosart) II. 3/2 His royall Trench (that..holds the Sperme of Herbage by a Spring).

1620 G. Markham Farewell to Husb. (1625) 99 The worme..deuouring vp the substance or sperm, is the cause that the corne cannot grow.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. F4^v I'll call't form bestiall, It makes a beast added to plantall sperm.

b. Of other material things.

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1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 108 Water is both the Sperme, and the Menstruum of the world.

1671 J. Webster Metallographia iv. 77 The Sperm of Metals is not different from the sperm of other things, to wit, an humid vapour.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. i. 3 The Fifth [ship had for its device] a famous Kan made of Sperm of Emerald.

1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 120 The primal sperm and matter of the world.

c. Of qualities, conditions, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ

seedeOE

mustard seed?1523

seed corn1586

seedness1597

sperm1639

seminal1646

germ1823

1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxvi. 91 Infects her mind With the black Sperme of Contradiction.

1659 C. Noble Inexpediency of Exped. 4 The Remedy that is prescribed is the very Seed and Sperm..and Vivary of that difference.

1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xv, in Prometheus Unbound 219 'Tis the sperm Of what makes life foul, cankerous, and abhorred.

II. (Short for sperm whale n. or spermaceti n.)

a. sperm oil n. an oil found together with spermaceti in the head of various species of whales.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > parts of > spermaceti or oil

spermaceti1471

whale-shot1612

amber1663

sperm oil1839

shot1914

1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 149 There was still a gradual increase in the importation of sperm oil.

1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. vi. §1. 358 The principal drying oils are those of linseed, walnut, hemp,..and sperm oil.

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 202 Crude and refined Sperm oil, used for illuminating,..and in the manufacture of spermaceti.

attributive.1849 G. Cupples Green Hand ii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 317/2 Trimming up the sperm-oil light.

b. sperm candle n. a spermaceti candle.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > made from whale blubber

spermaceti-candle1738

sperm candle1775

sperm1856

1775 in Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. (1876) XIII. 202 He heard sperm candles were 3s.

1839 C. F. Briggs Adventures Harry Franco II. 143 Mrs. Brown's house was brilliantly illuminated with a sperm candle in each side light.

1856 Orr's Circle of Sci., Pract. Chem. 458 15 sperm candles will give the light of 16.5 stearic.

1890 Daily News 29 Oct. 3/5 The only clean and tidy candles..were wax candles and sperm candles.

a. A sperm whale. Also collective and attributive.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Physeteridae > genus Physeter (sperm whale)

trumpa1625

spermaceti whale1658

pot-walfish1694

parmacety1705

pot-fish1744

cachalot1747

physeter1753

sperm whale1839

sperm1840

macrocephalus1851

greyhead1859

physeteroid1876

1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 185 The commencement of the Sperm Fishery by England.

1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 28 Jan. 53/2 See, again! there is a sperm of the largest size, which has just leaped.

1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xviii. 772 The parts of the ocean..in which the sperm are found.

1895 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Dec. 2/1 He killed as many as five sperms in a single day with one harpoon.

b. sperm-bird n. (see quot. 1840).

ΚΠ

1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. I. 10 Many ocean birds of the high south latitudes were now visible.., as nellies (Procellaria gigantea); blue-petrels, or sperm-birds (Prion pachyptila), [etc.].

6. Sperm candles or oil.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > made from whale blubber

spermaceti-candle1738

sperm candle1775

sperm1856

1856 Orr's Circle of Sci., Pract. Chem. 458 If there be any difference, the light of sperm is a little greater, and that of stearic acid a little whiter.

1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. I. iv. 68 The soft..radiance diffused by the burning sperm.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

sperm-bag n.

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1849 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 139 i. 347 The spermatozoa are distinctly seen in the sperm-bag.

sperm-ball n.

ΚΠ

1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 424/2 Each cell..produces a large number of spermatozoa, which occur in spherical clusters or sperm-balls.

sperm-cell n.

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1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 148 In the lower tribes, both of Plants and Animals, we find that ‘sperm-cells’ and ‘germ-cells’ are developed in the midst of the ordinary tissues of the body.

1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 318 The male pro~nucleus is a spermatozoon, which is a part of the nucleus of the original sperm-cell.

sperm corpuscle n.

ΚΠ

1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 397 With sperm-corpuscles, mucus-corpuscles, and epithelium-scales.

sperm-germ n.

ΚΠ

1856 A. Thomson in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. [138]/2 Two different organised bodies, which are respectively formed from two different cells; the ovigerm and the spermgerm.

sperm mill n.

ΚΠ

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 99 Stall-feeding makes sperm-mills of the cattle.

sperm reservoir n.

ΚΠ

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlii. 146 The Sperm-reservoir (Spermatheca) is an organ connecting the vagina with the oviduct.

sperm rope n.

ΚΠ

1883 Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 682/2 In other Mollusca..this formation of ‘sperm ropes’ is known.

sperm sac n.

ΚΠ

1859 T. H. Huxley Oceanic Hydrozoa 64 The smaller contained a sperm-sac, with incompletely developed spermatozoa.

sperm vessel n.

ΚΠ

1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xv. 280 Two long auxiliary vessels..that have been named sperm-vessels, gluten-vessels, and gum-vessels, by different authors.

C2.

sperm bank n. = semen bank n. at semen n. 2.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm > semen > sperm bank

semen bank1954

sperm bank1963

1963 B. Russell Let. 10 Mar. in Autobiogr. (1969) III. iv. 173 If a sperm-bank, such as you envisage, had existed during the régime of Hitler, Hitler would have been the sire of all babies born in his time in Germany.

1977 M. Sokolinsky tr. R. Merle Virility Factor vi. 130 Suppose you've had a vasectomy done... The men kept the sperm..in a sperm bank, in case their wives wanted to be fertilized.

sperm banking n.

ΚΠ

1972 Science 7 Apr. 32 Biologist Mark Lappé..is disturbed that commercial outfits are the first to introduce large-scale sperm banking.

sperm count n. the number of spermatozoa in the ejaculate or in one millilitre of it.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm > spermatozoon > sperm count

sperm count1941

1941 Endocrinology XXVIII. 783 For approximately 18 days after the fever, the human total sperm counts remain at a relatively normal level.

1979 Daily Tel. 29 Nov. 19/1 Her twin was told she was unlikely to have children because of her husband's low sperm count.

sperm morula n. a ball of spermatozoa.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm > spermatozoon > ball of

sperm morula1889

1889 Cent. Dict. Sperm morula.

1921 Nature 7 July 586/1 The occurrence of developing sperm-morulæ in microscopic sections of..oysters has..been already observed.

1936 Mem. Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 2nd Ser. III. 1003 Since females on English [oyster] beds nearly always carry some sperm morulae amongst the eggs, self~fertilisation will nearly always be possible.

C3. sperm-forming, sperm-like, sperm-producing, sperm-secreting adjs.

ΚΠ

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 414/1 The principal forms of the sperm-secreting organs.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. i. i. 32 Infect them, either by growing parasitically.., or by imparting (sperm-like) to these latter specific properties.

1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 53 The relation of the egg-forming and sperm-forming organs to one another varies greatly.

1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. ii. 52 Their walls are composed of germ-cells (sperm-producing cells).

Draft additions January 2018

sperm donor n. a man who donates his sperm for use in artificial insemination.

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1938 Amer. Mercury Apr. 422/2 No physician can divulge professional confidences without the consent of his patient. The sperm-donor could waive his privilege only so far as he was personally involved.

1964 Michigan Law Rev. 62 1102 The now real possibility of artificial insemination by refrigerated sperm long after the sperm donor's death would seem to void many gifts.

2006 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 28 May 54/1 (heading) Hall discovered she had a biological half-sister in England—both fathered by the same sperm donor.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sperm
释义	spermn. Brit. /spəːm/, U.S. /spərm/ Forms: Middle English–1600s sperme, 1500s spearme, sparme, 1600s sparm, 1500s– sperm. Etymology: < Old French esperme (French sperme), sparme, or Latin sperma (hence also Italian sperma, Spanish esperma, Portuguese esperma), < Greek σπέρμα, < the stem of σπείρειν to sow. I. Senses relating to generation and procreation. 1. a. The generative substance or seed of male animals (esp. of vertebrates). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm seedOE spermc1386 sperma1527 c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 19 In the feld of Damassene With goddes owene finger wroght was he And nat bigeten of mannes sperme [Harl. MS. sperma] unclene. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) xiii. xxix The whale haþ gret plente of sperme, and after þat he gendreþ with þe female, superfluite þerof fleteþ aboue þe water. a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 14 Som-tyme þe sperme goþ oute by þe hole of þe ȝerde infistulate. 1526 Grete Herball xxviii. sig. Bv^v/1 Ambre is hote and drye... Some say that it is the sparme of a whale. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 53 I sau hemp that coagulis the flux of the sparme. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xvi. 85 We see, of bread and wine, blood to be made; of blood, sperm or seed. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 330 And thus may it also be in the generation and sperm of Negroes. View more context for this quotation 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Poultry The Cock..rarifies the Egg, and renders it fit to produce its Species by the Sperm or Tread he infuses into it. 1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) V. 361 It hath since been imagined, that pearls must be the eggs or the sperm of the fish inclosed in the shell. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 8 The male shortly afterwards passes over the spawn or hard roe, and discharges upon it his sperm, which we call soft roe or milt. 1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 53 Receptacles which serve for the collection of the sperm. b. A spermatozoon. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm > spermatozoon animalcule1686 animalcula1716 zoosperm1824 spermatozoon1836 spermatozoid1861 sperm1904 nemasperm1922 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Oct. 964 Gametes (eggs and sperms). 1905 G. A. Reid Princ. Heredity xii. 162 If these same sperms reside for a longer time [etc.]. †2. a. The eggs of insects. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > egg(s) niteOE blowing1558 sperm1615 blote1657 1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 44 The red peckled butter-flye doth euer put them [i.e. caterpillars], being her sparm, among the tender spraies for better feeding. 1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 34 A just Description of the Sperm or Eggs (which is entirely answerable to what the Queen lays). †b. Offspring, brood (of persons). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > progeny or offspring bairn-teamc885 childeOE tudderc897 seedOE teamOE wastum971 offspringOE i-cundeOE fostera1175 i-streonc1175 strainc1175 brooda1300 begetc1300 barm-teamc1315 issuea1325 progenyc1330 fruit of the loinsa1340 bowel1382 young onec1384 suita1387 engendrurea1400 fruitinga1400 geta1400 birth?a1425 porturec1425 progenityc1450 bodyfauntc1460 generation1477 fryc1480 enfantement1483 infantment1483 blood issue1535 propagation1536 offspring1548 race1549 family?1552 increase1552 breed1574 begetting1611 sperm1641 bed1832 fruitage1850 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 57 Let not those wretched Fathers thinke they shall impoverish the Church.., though they keep back their sordid sperm begotten in the lustinesse of their avarice. 3. transferred. The generative matter or source from which anything is formed or takes its origin: a. Of plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > [noun] > generation or evolution > generative matter sperm1610 1610 J. Davies Vaughan in Wks. (Grosart) II. 3/2 His royall Trench (that..holds the Sperme of Herbage by a Spring). 1620 G. Markham Farewell to Husb. (1625) 99 The worme..deuouring vp the substance or sperm, is the cause that the corne cannot grow. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. F4^v I'll call't form bestiall, It makes a beast added to plantall sperm. b. Of other material things. ΚΠ 1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 108 Water is both the Sperme, and the Menstruum of the world. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia iv. 77 The Sperm of Metals is not different from the sperm of other things, to wit, an humid vapour. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. i. 3 The Fifth [ship had for its device] a famous Kan made of Sperm of Emerald. 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 120 The primal sperm and matter of the world. c. Of qualities, conditions, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ seedeOE mustard seed?1523 seed corn1586 seedness1597 sperm1639 seminal1646 germ1823 1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxvi. 91 Infects her mind With the black Sperme of Contradiction. 1659 C. Noble Inexpediency of Exped. 4 The Remedy that is prescribed is the very Seed and Sperm..and Vivary of that difference. 1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xv, in Prometheus Unbound 219 'Tis the sperm Of what makes life foul, cankerous, and abhorred. II. (Short for sperm whale n. or spermaceti n.) 4. a. sperm oil n. an oil found together with spermaceti in the head of various species of whales. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > parts of > spermaceti or oil spermaceti1471 whale-shot1612 amber1663 sperm oil1839 shot1914 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 149 There was still a gradual increase in the importation of sperm oil. 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. vi. §1. 358 The principal drying oils are those of linseed, walnut, hemp,..and sperm oil. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 202 Crude and refined Sperm oil, used for illuminating,..and in the manufacture of spermaceti. attributive.1849 G. Cupples Green Hand ii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 317/2 Trimming up the sperm-oil light. b. sperm candle n. a spermaceti candle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > made from whale blubber spermaceti-candle1738 sperm candle1775 sperm1856 1775 in Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. (1876) XIII. 202 He heard sperm candles were 3s. 1839 C. F. Briggs Adventures Harry Franco II. 143 Mrs. Brown's house was brilliantly illuminated with a sperm candle in each side light. 1856 Orr's Circle of Sci., Pract. Chem. 458 15 sperm candles will give the light of 16.5 stearic. 1890 Daily News 29 Oct. 3/5 The only clean and tidy candles..were wax candles and sperm candles. 5. a. A sperm whale. Also collective and attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Physeteridae > genus Physeter (sperm whale) trumpa1625 spermaceti whale1658 pot-walfish1694 parmacety1705 pot-fish1744 cachalot1747 physeter1753 sperm whale1839 sperm1840 macrocephalus1851 greyhead1859 physeteroid1876 1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 185 The commencement of the Sperm Fishery by England. 1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 28 Jan. 53/2 See, again! there is a sperm of the largest size, which has just leaped. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xviii. 772 The parts of the ocean..in which the sperm are found. 1895 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Dec. 2/1 He killed as many as five sperms in a single day with one harpoon. b. sperm-bird n. (see quot. 1840). ΚΠ 1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. I. 10 Many ocean birds of the high south latitudes were now visible.., as nellies (Procellaria gigantea); blue-petrels, or sperm-birds (Prion pachyptila), [etc.]. 6. Sperm candles or oil. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > made from whale blubber spermaceti-candle1738 sperm candle1775 sperm1856 1856 Orr's Circle of Sci., Pract. Chem. 458 If there be any difference, the light of sperm is a little greater, and that of stearic acid a little whiter. 1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. I. iv. 68 The soft..radiance diffused by the burning sperm. Compounds C1. General attributive. sperm-bag n. ΚΠ 1849 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 139 i. 347 The spermatozoa are distinctly seen in the sperm-bag. sperm-ball n. ΚΠ 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 424/2 Each cell..produces a large number of spermatozoa, which occur in spherical clusters or sperm-balls. sperm-cell n. ΚΠ 1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 148 In the lower tribes, both of Plants and Animals, we find that ‘sperm-cells’ and ‘germ-cells’ are developed in the midst of the ordinary tissues of the body. 1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 318 The male pro~nucleus is a spermatozoon, which is a part of the nucleus of the original sperm-cell. sperm corpuscle n. ΚΠ 1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. V. 397 With sperm-corpuscles, mucus-corpuscles, and epithelium-scales. sperm-germ n. ΚΠ 1856 A. Thomson in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. [138]/2 Two different organised bodies, which are respectively formed from two different cells; the ovigerm and the spermgerm. sperm mill n. ΚΠ 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 99 Stall-feeding makes sperm-mills of the cattle. sperm reservoir n. ΚΠ 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlii. 146 The Sperm-reservoir (Spermatheca) is an organ connecting the vagina with the oviduct. sperm rope n. ΚΠ 1883 Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 682/2 In other Mollusca..this formation of ‘sperm ropes’ is known. sperm sac n. ΚΠ 1859 T. H. Huxley Oceanic Hydrozoa 64 The smaller contained a sperm-sac, with incompletely developed spermatozoa. sperm vessel n. ΚΠ 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xv. 280 Two long auxiliary vessels..that have been named sperm-vessels, gluten-vessels, and gum-vessels, by different authors. C2. sperm bank n. = semen bank n. at semen n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm > semen > sperm bank semen bank1954 sperm bank1963 1963 B. Russell Let. 10 Mar. in Autobiogr. (1969) III. iv. 173 If a sperm-bank, such as you envisage, had existed during the régime of Hitler, Hitler would have been the sire of all babies born in his time in Germany. 1977 M. Sokolinsky tr. R. Merle Virility Factor vi. 130 Suppose you've had a vasectomy done... The men kept the sperm..in a sperm bank, in case their wives wanted to be fertilized. sperm banking n. ΚΠ 1972 Science 7 Apr. 32 Biologist Mark Lappé..is disturbed that commercial outfits are the first to introduce large-scale sperm banking. sperm count n. the number of spermatozoa in the ejaculate or in one millilitre of it. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm > spermatozoon > sperm count sperm count1941 1941 Endocrinology XXVIII. 783 For approximately 18 days after the fever, the human total sperm counts remain at a relatively normal level. 1979 Daily Tel. 29 Nov. 19/1 Her twin was told she was unlikely to have children because of her husband's low sperm count. sperm morula n. a ball of spermatozoa. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm > spermatozoon > ball of sperm morula1889 1889 Cent. Dict. Sperm morula. 1921 Nature 7 July 586/1 The occurrence of developing sperm-morulæ in microscopic sections of..oysters has..been already observed. 1936 Mem. Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 2nd Ser. III. 1003 Since females on English [oyster] beds nearly always carry some sperm morulae amongst the eggs, self~fertilisation will nearly always be possible. C3. sperm-forming, sperm-like, sperm-producing, sperm-secreting adjs. ΚΠ 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 414/1 The principal forms of the sperm-secreting organs. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. i. i. 32 Infect them, either by growing parasitically.., or by imparting (sperm-like) to these latter specific properties. 1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 53 The relation of the egg-forming and sperm-forming organs to one another varies greatly. 1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. ii. 52 Their walls are composed of germ-cells (sperm-producing cells). Draft additions January 2018 sperm donor n. a man who donates his sperm for use in artificial insemination. ΚΠ 1938 Amer. Mercury Apr. 422/2 No physician can divulge professional confidences without the consent of his patient. The sperm-donor could waive his privilege only so far as he was personally involved. 1964 Michigan Law Rev. 62 1102 The now real possibility of artificial insemination by refrigerated sperm long after the sperm donor's death would seem to void many gifts. 2006 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 28 May 54/1 (heading) Hall discovered she had a biological half-sister in England—both fathered by the same sperm donor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † spermv. Etymology: < sperm n. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To spawn. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (intransitive)] > spawn spawnc1400 sperma1425 a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 41 Þei grew to þe liknes of þe womb of a..creuyse or lopster when he spermeþ or frieþ. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). > see also also refers to : -spermcomb. form < n.c1386v.a1425 see also
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