Definition of "sperm" []

• A male gamete or reproductive cell; a spermatozoon. (noun)
• Semen. (noun)
• A substance, such as spermaceti, associated with the sperm whale. (noun)

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• "Women can easily create single-parent households without men by using a sperm donor, in a state that recognizes the legal status of ’sperm donor’."
• "I paused for a whisker of a moment, amazed that I was even uttering the word sperm to a seventy-seven-year-old man who could be my grandfather."
• "I never got the "you're dead but your sperm is alive" thing either."