Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An organ or a gland in which male gametes are formed, especially in invertebrate animals.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The male germ-gland or essential sexual organ, of whatever character; the sperm-gland, or spermatic organ, or seminal gonad, in which spermatozoa are generated, in its specialized condition in the higher animals known as the testis or testicle. The term is used in distinction from ovary, both spermaries and ovaries being gonads. Also spermarium.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy An organ in which spermatozoa are developed; a sperm gland; a testicle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) An organ in which spermatozoa are developed; a sperm gland; a testicle.
Etymologies
- sperm + -ary (Wiktionary)
- New Latin spermārium, from Late Latin sperma, semen; see sperm1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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