spermospore
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids.
Example Sentences
- "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"
Etymology
From spermo- + spore.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: spermo