SPERM

n. Spu*rin. Gr.. o-repfia (from mrtiptiv, to sowX Lat., spffina. Ger., Befruchtung toff (3d def.), Befruchtungsma e (2d def.). 1. See SEMEN Ust def. i. 2. In botany, the contents (fovilke) of pollen-grains and antfaerkiia; of T. J. Parker, the male gamete or sperm a to zooid. [".lour, of the Roy. Micr. Soc.," 1890.- p. 19; B, 123 (a, 35).] S.-ina . The ma of sperm a to zooids emitted at one time by one of the tailed Amphibia and attached to a spermatophore. [J.] S.-moruUu See SPERMOSPHEKE. S.-uucleus. See Spermatic NUCLEUS. [s. 512]