Word.ws English Dictionary

spermathecae

spermathecae is the plural of spermatheca.

Meaning of spermatheca

Noun

spermatheca (plural spermathecas or spermathecae)

  1. A small sac within the reproductive tract of some female invertebrates, such as insects, which stores sperm until it is used to fertilize the ova.

Questions about spermathecae

What is spermathecae the plural of?
Spermathecae is the plural of spermatheca.

Words near spermathecae in the dictionary

  1. spermatagonium
  2. spermatangia
  3. spermatangial
  4. spermatangium
  5. spermatheca
  6. spermathecae
  7. spermathecal
  8. spermathecas
  9. spermatia
  10. spermatial
  11. spermatic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spermathecae (page history and authors); spermatheca (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: “spermathecae.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/spermathecae. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.