Word.ws English Dictionary

spermalege

spermalege noun: a special-purpose organ found in bedbugs that appears to have evolved to mitigate the effects of traumatic insemination. It has two embryologically distinct parts: the ectospermalege and mesospermalege.

Noun

spermalege (plural spermaleges)

  1. A special-purpose organ found in bedbugs that appears to have evolved to mitigate the effects of traumatic insemination. It has two embryologically distinct parts: the ectospermalege and mesospermalege.

Synonyms of spermalege

Forms of spermalege

pluralspermaleges

Questions about spermalege

What does spermalege mean?
Spermalege means a special-purpose organ found in bedbugs that appears to have evolved to mitigate the effects of traumatic insemination. It has two embryologically distinct parts: the ectospermalege and mesospermalege.
What part of speech is spermalege?
Spermalege is a noun.
What is the plural of spermalege?
The plural of spermalege is spermaleges.

Words near spermalege in the dictionary

  1. spermagonia
  2. spermagonial
  3. spermagonium
  4. spermaholic
  5. spermaholics
  6. spermalege
  7. spermaleges
  8. spermaphore
  9. spermaphores
  10. spermaphyte
  11. spermaphytes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spermalege (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “spermalege.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/spermalege. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.