sperms

Noun

sperm (countable and uncountable, plural sperm or sperms)

1. (countable) The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.
   • In the Fall into the division of labor, Levi-Strauss sees the great hunters trading women to create the exogamous bonds of one hunting band with another. The egg is, but the sperm does. The tiny sperm may be furious in its activity, but its highway to the egg is paved by the alkaline trail set down...1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 80

   Synonyms:

   spermatozoon, sperm cell

2. (slang, uncountable) Semen; the generative substance of male animals.
   • Other Nations there are, that never have use of fire; Others, whose sperme is of a blacke colour.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   cum, semen

3. Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti.
   • Holding his candle so that he could read the coffin plates, and so holding it that the sperm dropped in white patches which congealed as they touched the metal, he made assurance of Lucy’s coffin.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula

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