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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the male reproductive cell; the male gamete;
- Example: "a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material"
[syn: sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon, spermatozoan]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Spermatozoid \Sper`ma*to*zo"id\, n. [Spermatozoon + Gr. e'i^dos form.] (Biol.) The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozoon. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Spermatozoon \Sper`ma*to*zo"on\, n.; pl. Spermatozoa. [NL., fr. Gr. ???, sperm + zo^,on an animal.] (Biol.) Same as Spermatozoid. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

spermatozoon n 1: the male reproductive cell; the male gamete; "a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material" [syn: sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon, spermatozoan]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "spermatozoon": Anlage, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, bud, egg, embryo, germ, germen, loins, male gamete, milt, nucleus, ovum, pollen, protein, rudiment, scum, seed, semen, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium, spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium, spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa, spermatozoid