Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as spermatozoan.

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  • Firstly, they are extraordinarily small, being usually the smallest cells in the body; and, secondly, they have, as a rule, a peculiarly lively motion, which is known as spermatozoic motion.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • There was so much to think of in this connection — the spermatozoic beginning, the strange period of gestation in women, the danger of disease and delivery.

    The Financier 2004

  • There was so much to think of in this connection -- the spermatozoic beginning, the strange period of gestation in women, the danger of disease and delivery.

    The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

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