| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  spûrm |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. sperm or sperms
1. A male gamete or reproductive cell; a spermatozoon. 2. Semen. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English sperme, semen, from Old French esperme, from Late Latin sperma, from Greek. See sper- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | sperm ous —ADJECTIVE
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