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‖ spermogonium|-ˈgəʊnɪəm|
Pl. -gonia.
[mod.L., f. spermo- + Gr. γον- stem of γονή, γόνος offspring, etc. Cf. spermagonium.]
1. Bot. One of the receptacles in lichens and fungi in which the spermatia are produced.
1857Henfrey Bot. 169 Smaller chambers, analogous in structure to the perithecia,..occur in the thallus of all Lichens..; they are called spermogonia. 1866Treas. Bot. 1211/2 The pycnidia or spermogonia of different sporidiiferous lichens. 1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 349 Spermogonia in the form of minute depressed tubercles.
2. Phys. A sperm-cell.
1913J. W. Jenkinson Vertebrate Embryol. 23 In the male sex the primordial germ-cells divide to form small cells, the spermogonia. |