spermatium
English
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editspermatium (plural spermatia)
- One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.
- 1848, John Hutton Balfour, Manual of Botany:
- cellular filaments bearing spermatia
References
edit“spermatium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.