spermogoniumn.
/spəːməˈɡəʊnɪəm/, U.S. /ˌspərməˈɡoʊniəm/ 1. Botany. One of the receptacles in lichens and fungi in which the spermatia are produced.
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1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 169 Smaller chambers, analogous in structure to the perithecia,..occur in the thallus of all Lichens..; they are called spermogonia.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1211/2 The pycnidia or spermogonia of different sporidiiferous lichens.
1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 349 Spermogonia in the form of minute depressed tubercles.
2. Physiology. A sperm-cell.
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1913 J. W. Jenkinson Vertebr. Embryol. 23 In the male sex the primordial germ-cells divide to form small cells, the spermogonia.
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