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  • English Word Spermoderm Definition The covering of a seed; -- sometimes limited to the outer coat or testa.
  • English Word Spermogonium Definition A conceptacle of certain lichens, which contains spermatia.
  • English Word Spermologist Definition One who treats of, or collects, seeds.
  • English Word Spermophile Definition Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; a gopher. See Illust. under Gopher.
  • English Word Spermophore Definition A spermatophore.
  • English Word Spermophyta Definition Plants which produce seed; phaenogamia. These plants constitute the highest grand division of the vegetable kingdom.
  • English Word Spermophyte Definition Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace ph/nogam.
  • English Word Spermophytic Definition Capable of producing seeds; ph/nogamic.
  • English Word Spermoplasma Definition The protoplasm of the sperm cell.
  • English Word Spermosphere Definition A mass or ball of cells formed by the repeated division of a male germinal cell (spermospore), each constituent cell (spermoblast) of which is converted into a spermatozoid; a spermatogemma.
  • English Word Spermospore Definition The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids; a spermatospore.
  • English Word Spermule Definition A sperm cell.
  • English Word Sperre Definition To shut in; to support; to inclose; to fasten.
  • English Word Sperrylite Definition An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.
  • English Word Sperse Definition To disperse.
  • English Word Spessartite Definition A manganesian variety of garnet.
  • English Word Spet Definition To spit; to throw out.
  • English Word Spet Definition Spittle.
  • English Word Spetches Definition Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.
  • English Word Spew Definition To eject from the stomach; to vomit.
  • English Word Spew Definition To cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject.
  • English Word Spew Definition To vomit.
  • English Word Spew Definition To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.
  • English Word Spew Definition That which is vomited; vomit.
  • English Word Spewed Definition of Spew
  • English Word Spewer Definition One who spews.
  • English Word Spewiness Definition The state of being spewy.
  • English Word Spewing Definition of Spew
  • English Word Spewy Definition Wet; soggy; inclined to spew.
  • English Word Sphacel Definition Gangrene.