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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 small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozoon. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.

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gamete 76% connected

A reproductive cell, such as a sperm or egg

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Antherozoid 92% connected

Alt. of Antherozooid

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Archespore noun · 86% connection

primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops

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Archesporium noun · 86% connection

primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops

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Arthrospore noun · 86% connection

a body that resembles a spore but is not an endospore; produced by some bacteria

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Daughter cell noun · 86% connection

a cell formed by the division or budding of another cell; "anthrax grows by dividing into two daughter cells that are generally identi…

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Mother cell noun · 86% connection

cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops; "a sperm cell develops from a sperm mother cell"

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Plant cell noun · 86% connection

a cell that is a structural and functional unit of a plant

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Annual noun · 85% connection

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

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Apophysis noun · 85% connection

(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

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Bast noun · 85% connection

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

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Biennial noun · 85% connection

(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…

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Blister noun · 85% connection

(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

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Callus noun · 85% connection

(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

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Calyx noun · 85% connection

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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Coma noun · 85% connection

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

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Corolla noun · 85% connection

(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…

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Corona noun · 85% connection

(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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Embryo noun · 85% connection

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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Germ tube noun · 85% connection

(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination

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Allogamy noun · 78% connection

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

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Antiparticle noun · 78% connection

a particle that has the same mass as another particle but has opposite values for its other properties; interaction of a particle and…

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Apogamy noun · 78% connection

(botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte…

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Apoptosis noun · 78% connection

a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…

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Bacterium noun · 78% connection

A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…

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Calcium noun · 78% connection

a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important compone…

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Caspase-mediated cell death noun · 78% connection

a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…

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CD8 cell noun · 78% connection

T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, germ, cell, animals, plants.
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CD8 T cell noun · 78% connection

T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, germ, cell, animals, plants.
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cell membrane noun · 78% connection

a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…

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Centrosome noun · 78% connection

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cel…

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Cilia n. pl. · 78% connection

Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower…

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Cystoplast noun · 78% connection

A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.

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