spermatozoon

IPA: spˈɝmʌtˈɑzun

(cytology) A reproductive cell or gamete of a male, carried in semen, that fertilizes an ovum to produce a zygote.

Examples of "spermatozoon" in Sentences

-- The male reproductive element is called spermatozoon, or zoosperm.
Wise man stay away from the Eurostar, now promoting itself as the tunnel of love with spermatozoon baked beans.
The term “spermatozoon” is well chosen since the sperm, with its long flagellum—or tail—is very much akin to a protozoan.
Why should anyone have to pay taxes on income from my labor while the result of the lucky spermatozoon contest is excused?
After a few spins its thunderous bassline and electro chorus finally take hold and lodge in your brain like an egg-hungry spermatozoon.
Here, in all these cases, what is required is the detachment of two portions of the parental organisms, which portions we know as the egg and the spermatozoon.
Dorland's Medical Dictionary defines pregnancy, in relevant part, as "the condition of having a developing embryo or fetus in the body, after union of an oocyte and spermatozoon."
But, as ever, Clarksonâ€™s voice – as powerful as Alan Sugar in the boardroom, as gutsy as an egg-hungry spermatozoon – makes it that little bit more interesting than it might otherwise have been.
To explain such “different people choices”, Parfit adopts the genetic identity view of personal identity: the identity of a person is at least in part constituted by the DNA the person has as a result of which ovum was fertilized by this or that spermatozoon in the creation of this person.