Definition of Seminiferous

1. Adjective. Bearing or producing seed or semen. "Seminiferous tubules"

Partainyms: Semen

Definition of Seminiferous

1. a. Seed-bearing; producing seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles.

Definition of Seminiferous

1. Adjective. Conveying, containing, bearing, or producing semen. ¹

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Definition of Seminiferous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Seminiferous

1. Seed-bearing; producing seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles. Origin: L. Semen, semenis, seed -ferous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seminiferous

seminaries
seminarist
seminarists
seminarlike
seminarrative
seminars
seminated
seminates
semination
seminationalized
seminations
seminatural
seminification
seminist
seminists
seminoles
seminolipid
seminolipids
seminomad
seminomadic
seminomads

Literary usage of Seminiferous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"These projections and ridges may be homologous with the seminiferous scale of the ... The seminiferous scale of Pinus, &c., is also spoken of sometimes as a ..."

2. Text-book of normal histology: including an account of the development of by George Arthur Piersol (1904)
"Next the basemen t- membrane of the seminiferous tubule lies a layer of low cuboidal nucleated parietal cells ; this peripheral zone contains cells of two ..."

3. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"Pinus] the seminiferous scales (Fig. 353, A, B, s) appear to be axillary structures in the axils of bracts (c) which spring from the axis of the cone ..."

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