Definitions
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- adjective Resembling
sperm or an individual sperm.
Etymologies
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sperm + -like
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Examples
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To balance this out, the pregnant Venus a squawky Stephanie Friede—whose retinue included several spermlike tadpoles—gave birth, completing the circle of life.
At Richard Wagner's Old Stamping Grounds Heidi Waleson 2011
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The resulting critter, called a trophozoite, sports a spermlike tail that allows it to wiggle over to the lining of the intestinal tract, whereupon it attaches itself by suction cups and begins to replicate thousands of times over.
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Orphaned worlds were caught erupting from the towers, little spermlike shapes trailing viscera of dust.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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