Crossword-Solution: SPERMATOZOID
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| Spermatozoid | n. | 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. |
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| a motile male gamete of a plant usually produced in an antheridium | 1 answer |
| Gamete | 5 answers |
| CELL ___ | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SPERMATOZOID (5)
The fundamental condition of fecundity being the union of a spermatozoid and an ovum, the object of artificial impregnation is to further this union by introducing semen directly to the fundus of the uterus.
From that moment, the two procreating elements are present in the mother at one and the same time: the female element, the ovule; and the male element, the spermatozoid.
Other adaptations concern the protection of the sexual organs and sporogonia, and the retention of water in the neighbourhood of the archegonia to enable the spermatozoid to reach the ovum.
Owing to the small size of the spermatozoids, and the opacity of the eggs, it is impossible to see whether more than one spermatozoid penetrates it; but from what is known in other cases it is not likely.
The ripe spermatozoid is coiled in a flat spiral (53, _E_), and has two excessively delicate cilia, visible only under the most favorable circumstances.
Quotes with SPERMATOZOID (1)
Love is worth dying for, said the spermatozoid.