spermatozoon

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: sper=ma=to=zo=on

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spermatozoon, n. (pl. spermatozoa) the mature motile sex cell in animals.

Derivative

spermatozoal adj. spermatozoan adj. spermatozoic adj.

Etymology

SPERM + Gk zoion animal

THESAURUS

spermatozoon

Anlage, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, bud, egg, embryo, germ, germen, loins, male gamete, milt, nucleus, ovum, pollen, protein, rudiment, scum, seed, semen, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium, spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium, spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa, spermatozoid

ROGET THESAURUS

spermatozoon

Organization

N organization, organized world, organized nature, living nature, animated nature, living beings, organic remains, fossils, protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein, albumen, structure, organization, organism, biology, natural history, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology, zoology, botany, microbiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology, naturalist, archegenesis, antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy, chromosome, dysmeromorph, ecology, oecology, erythroblast, gametangium, gamete, germinal matter, invagination, isogamy, oogamy, karyaster, macrogamete, microgamete, metabolism, anabolism, catabolism, metaplasm, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea, zygote, Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism, morphology, taxonomy, organic, organized, karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar, zoogloeic, zoogloeoid.