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monospermic

monospermic adjective: involving a single sperm cell.

Adjective

monospermic (not comparable)

  1. Involving a single sperm cell.
    • It is unlikely to get monospermic embryos in blastocyst stage.2015 August 12, “Scriptaid Treatment Decreases DNA Methyltransferase 1 Expression by Induction of MicroRNA-152 Expression in Porcine Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Embryos”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  2. Of or pertaining to monospermy.

Origin of monospermic

From mono- + -spermic.

Questions about monospermic

What does monospermic mean?
Monospermic means involving a single sperm cell.
What part of speech is monospermic?
Monospermic is an adjective.

Words near monospermic in the dictionary

  1. monospecificity
  2. monospectral
  3. monosperm
  4. monospermal
  5. monospermatous
  6. monospermic
  7. monospermous
  8. monosperms
  9. monospermy
  10. monospherical
  11. monospirous

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