Definition of "zygotes" []

• Plural form of zygote. (noun)

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• "Thomas Aquinas, the "go to" theologian for so much Catholic doctrine, once argued that male masturbation (onanism) was a kind of murder (this at a time when current belief held that sperm contained what we'd today call entire "zygotes")."
• "Rick Santorum continues to be all about the zygotes."
• "If a fetus is a potential human being and a zygote a potential fetus, aren't the man's thoughts potential zygotes and therefore potential fetuses feti? and therefore potential human beings worthy of legal protection?"