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Definition of Seminiferous
1. Adjective. Bearing or producing seed or semen. "Seminiferous tubules"
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
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Medical Definition of Seminiferous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Seminiferous
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 ..."