Word Meanings - WHITEHORSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil. Also, the part of the head in which it occurs.

• Spermo-
  Combining forms from Gr. spe`rma, -atos, seed, sperm, semen (of plants or animals); as, spermatoblast, spermoblast.
• Spermatozoid
  The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a
• Spermophyte
  Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace ph/nogam.
• Toughly
  In a tough manner.
• SPERMATOPHYTA
  A phylum embracing the highest plants, or those that produce seeds; the seed plants, or flowering plants. They form the most numerous group, including over 120,000 species. In general, the group is characterized by the marked development of the sporoph
• Extendant
  Displaced.
• Spermatoblast
  Same as Spermoblast.
• Spermatozooid
  A spermatozoid.
• Spermophytic
  Capable of producing seeds; ph/nogamic.
• Toughness
  The quality or state of being tough.
• SPERMATOPHYTE
  Any plant of the phylum Spermatophyta. -- Sper`ma*to*phyt"ic (#), a.
• Extendedly
  In an extended manner.
• Extender
  One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.
• Spermaceti
  A white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of sp
• Spermatocyte
  Same as Spermoblast.
• Spermatozoa
  of Spermatozoon
• Spermoplasma
  The protoplasm of the sperm cell.
• Tough-pitch
  The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.

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