spermospore

spermospore

English

Etymology

spermo- +‎ spore

Noun

spermospore (plural spermospores)

1. (physiology) The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids.
   • 1880-1881, Francis Maitland Balfour, A Treatise on Comparative Embryology

     The spermatozoa are formed either by the direct division of the spermospores into a number of cells , spermoblasts , each of which grows into a spermatozoon ; or by the nucleus of the spermospore becoming subdivided within the cell body

Synonyms

• spermatospore

References

spermospore in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913