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Definition of Spermous
1. Adjective. Consisting of or resembling spermatozoa.
Definition of Spermous
1. resembling or made up of sperms [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spermous
| speromagnetic speronara sperre sperred sperres sperring sperrylite sperrylites sperse spersed | sperses |
Literary usage of Spermous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"Our present knowledge allows the recognition of only two classes of the angio-
spermous type—the Dicotyledones and the Monocotyledones. ..."
2. A Manual of Structural Botany: An Introductory Textbook for Students of by Henry Hurd Rusby (1911)
"The essential character of the gymno- spermous pistil is illustrated in Fig. 174.
... 175. Cup-shaped gymno- spermous carpel of Taxus. ..."
3. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"... wit ha farinaceous pulp. L. a mild. Style multipartite and several* Calyx single.
Capsules several, unilocular ; cells mono- spermous ..."
4. Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: Adapted to the by John Walker (1874)
"Troph-sperm, the *«d-nourisher or placenta (in plants). Angio-spermous, (with)
the seed-In a vessel or pericarp. ..."
5. On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection, Or, the by Charles Darwin (1883)
"... in the exterior flowers and coelo- spermous in the central flowers, — that
the elder De Candolle founded his main divisions in the order on such ..."
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