OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9381

sperm

/spɜɹm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
espermatozoide
The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.
In the Fall into the division of labor, Levi-Strauss sees the great hunters trading women to create the exogamous bonds of one hunting band with another. The egg is, but the sperm…
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.
esperma
Semen; the generative substance of male animals.
Deer sperm was in used among the Romans as an aphrodisiac.
Other Nations there are, that never have use of fire; Others, whose sperme is of a blacke colour.
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