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单词 sperma
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sperman.

Forms: Plural spermata.
Etymology: < Latin sperma or Greek σπέρμα: see sperm n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsperma.
Now rare.
Sperm; seed.
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c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 19 In the feld of Damassene With goddes owene finger wroght was he And nat bigeten of mannes sperme [Harl. MS. sperma] unclene.]
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Miij The same water is good and multyplyeth the sperma.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 3 b/2 The patient can nether retayne his vrine, Sperma, or Stole.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. 344 Whether the said Amber be the sperma or the excrement therof, they cannot well determine.
1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 790 Here have been Sperma-Ceti-Whales driven upon the shore, which Sperma (as they call it) lies all over the Body of those Whales.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Sperm or Sperma, the Seed whereof an Animal is form'd.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxvii. 350 By the mixture and mutual neutralization or solution of different spermata.
1886 London Q. Rev. Oct. 129 Basilides is said to have spoken of a ‘sperma’ or seed-mass, from which all things have been produced.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

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