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plural spermata
Obsolete form of sperm. quotations examples
The head of this fish is as hard as stone. The inhabitants of the Ocean sea coast affirme that this fish casteth foorth Amber; but whether the said Amber be the sperma or the excrement thereof, they cannot well determine.
1600, John Pory (translator), A Geographical Historie of Africa (original by Leo Africanus), page 344