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countable and uncountable, plural sperm or sperms
(countable) The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon. quotations examples
In the Fall into the division of labor, Levi-Strauss sees the great hunters trading women to create the exogamous bonds of one hunting band with another. The egg is, but the sperm does. The tiny sperm may be furious in its activity, but its highway to the egg is paved by the alkaline trail set down by the Great Mother.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 80
Seeing the two little moving cells – the result of her egg and Luke's sperm – was incredible, and two very long weeks later the clinic confirmed I was pregnant.
2012 April 13, Sarah Whitehouse, The Guardian
(uncountable, slang) Semen; the generative substance of male animals. quotations
Other Nations there are, that never have use of fire; Others, whose sperme is of a blacke colour.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
(chemistry) Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti. examples
third-person singular simple present sperms, present participle sperming, simple past and past participle spermed
(intransitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
(transitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate on or into.