oosperm
English
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editoosperm (plural oosperms)
- (biology) The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoon in impregnation.
- 1880-1881, Francis Maitland Balfour, A Treatise on Comparative Embryology
- It is clear that the ovum after fertilization is an entirely different body to the ovum prior to that act , and unless the use of the same term for the two conditions of the ovum had become very familiar , a special term , such as oosperm , for the ovum after the fusion with the spermatozoom, would be very convenient.
- 1880-1881, Francis Maitland Balfour, A Treatise on Comparative Embryology
References
edit- “oosperm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.