Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A viscous whitish secretion of the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa and consisting of secretions of the testes, seminal vesicles, prostate, and bulbourethral glands.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the seed of plants, or the matured ovule.
- noun A thick whitish fluid of a peculiar odor, the combined product of the testes and accessory generative glands, containing spermatozoa as its essential constituent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The seed of plants.
- noun (Physiol.) The seed or fecundating fluid of male animals; sperm. It is a white or whitish viscid fluid secreted by the testes, characterized by the presence of spermatozoids to which it owes its generative power.
- noun a strong aromatic, bitter drug, imported from Aleppo and Barbary, said to consist of the leaves, peduncles, and unexpanded flowers of various species of Artemisia; wormseed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A slimy, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term semen is, indeed, often applied to the secretion of the testicles alone; but to avoid misunderstanding, Fürbringer [8] recommends that only the mixed secretion, as actually discharged, should be spoken of as the semen, and that this term should never be employed to denote the testicular secretion alone.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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The best synonym for "semen" is _______________________.
I Can't Sleep, So Have Some Advice scathedobsidian 2005
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Only because Ximen sounds just like the English word "semen".
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The EU imported $27.7 million of bovine semen from the U.S. last year.
EU Nears Ban on Animal Cloning John W. Miller 2010
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This has got to be a name jack or Pezzie and the tea-baggers have a serious health issue on their hands if their semen is black.
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"C", who ran the service from 1909 to his sudden death in 1923, set the tone with his penchant for gadgets, code names and invisible inks (semen is best).
MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery Robert McCrum 2010
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It won't stop a drake from ejaculating (and those in Brennan's trials always did), but it does limit how far the semen is deposited along the vaginal tract.
Boing Boing 2009
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This being one of the founding documents of what I refer to as "Blood, Sweat and Tears Humanism", any three of those bodily fluids would be acceptable, though for this particular document obviously semen is preferred (for men).
The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom Hal Duncan 2007
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As my mother always taught me, chugging horse semen is sometimes acceptable, but you always charge.
OW, MY BALLS! 2007
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I am referrring to masturbation where semen is routinely spilled on the carpet, on bedsheets, and in cases of exceptional force and pressure, even on the walls.
Think Progress » Brownback Holds Up Drawing Of Embryo, Asks ‘Are You Going To Kill Me?’ 2006
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