midpiece

M3I1D2P3I1E1C3E1

noun

The part of a spermatozoon between the head and the tail, approximately 50 μm in humans; it consists of mitochondria, centrioles, and an axoneme.

OriginEnglish piece ← Middle English mid ← Old English midd →
Scrabble 15
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounmidpiece (plural midpieces)

plural midpieces · alternative mid-piece

  1. The part of a spermatozoon between the head and the tail, approximately 50 μm in humans; it consists of mitochondria, centrioles, and an axoneme.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*me
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*médʰi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*médʰyos
  5. Proto-Germanic*midjaz
  6. Proto-West Germanic*midi
  7. Old Englishmidd
  8. Middle Englishmid
  9. Englishmid
  10. Englishmid-
  11. Englishpiece
  12. Englishmidpiece

From mid- + piece.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

epidemic
Cite this entry
APA

midpiece. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midpiece

MLA

“midpiece.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midpiece. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “midpiece,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midpiece.

Source: midpiece on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.