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Semen

noun

(pl. semina)

The thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract. Synonyms: come, cum, ejaculate, seed, seminal fluid.

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"Semen" Quotes from Famous Books

... as Pallas, dare I sain Her faconde eke full womanly and plain, No contrefeted terms hadde she To semen wise; but after her degree She spake; and all her wordes more or less Sounding in virtue and ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol IV, Issue VI, December 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various

... each separate ovum: the male Ibla has no such organ; and no doubt the whole body, furnished like the penis with longitudinal and transverse muscles, serves the same purpose! I may remark, that it seems surprising that so small a male should secrete sufficient semen to impregnate the ova of the female, but the ova are not nearly so numerous in Ibla as in most genera of Cirripedes; and the smallness of the males in some parasitic Crustacea has already been alluded to. The ...

— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin

Words linked to "Semen" : seminal fluid, spermatozoon, ejaculate, cum, spermatozoan, body fluid, humor, sperm cell, humour, come, sperm, seed, bodily fluid, milt, liquid body substance, inseminate