Gamete \Gam"ete\ (g[a^]m"[=e]t; g[.a]*m[=e]t"; the latter usually in compounds), n. [Gr. gameth` wife, or game`ths husband, fr. gamei^n to marry.]

(Biol.) A sexual cell or germ cell; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an o["o]spore. In Zo["o]l., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.

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Sperm \Sperm\, n.[F. sperme, L. sperma, Gr. ???, ???, from ???? to sow. Cf. Spore.]

(Physiol.) The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen.

Sperm cell (Physiol.), one of the cells from which the spermatozoids are developed.

Sperm morula. (Biol.) Same as Spermosphere.

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Sperm \Sperm\, n.[Contr. fr. spermaceti.]

Spermaceti.

Sperm oil, a fatty oil found as a liquid, with spermaceti, in the head cavities of the sperm whale.

Sperm whale. (Zo["o]l.) See in the Vocabulary.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)