sperm
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
sperm
- (countable) The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.
- 2012, Sarah Whitehouse, The Guardian, 13 Apr 2012:
- Seeing the two little moving cells – the result of her egg and Luke's sperm – was incredible, and two very long weeks later the clinic confirmed I was pregnant.
- 2012, Sarah Whitehouse, The Guardian, 13 Apr 2012:
- (uncountable, slang) Semen; the generative substance of male animals.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- Other Nations there are, that never have use of fire; Others, whose sperme is of a blacke colour.
- (chemistry) Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti.
- (generative substance) cum (vulgar slang), semen
- (reproductive cell) spermatozoon, sperm cell
- French: spermatozoïde
- German: Spermium, Samenzelle
- Italian: spermatozoo
- Portuguese: espermatozoide
- Russian: сперматозо́ид
- Spanish: espermatozoide
- Italian: spermaceti
sperm (sperms, present participle sperming; past and past participle spermed)
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