Etymology

-spermia

Today it means: Forms nouns related to sperm or semen. Full definition →

English sperm ← Middle English sperme
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  1. Middle Englishsperme
  2. Englishsperm
  3. English today-spermia

Internationalism, from sperm + -ia.

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