Zool. [f. SPERMA- + DUCT 6 a.] A spermatic or seminal duct or passage in a male animal. Also Spermagone, Spermagonium, Bot. = SPERMOGONE, -GONIUM. Spermaphore, Spermaphyte, Bot. = SPERMOPHORE, -PHYTE.
1891. Cent. Dict., *Spermaduct,… a spermatic duct, or sperm-duct [etc.].
1905. J. McCabe, trans. Haeckel’s Evol. Man, II. 823. In the male they convey the spermatozoa away from the testicles, and are called ‘spermaducts,’ or vasa deferentia.
1876. Encycl. Brit., IV. 159/1. Embedded in the margin of the thallus in Lichens … certain hollow urn-shaped bodies are found, which have been termed *spermagones (conceptacles).
1861. H. Macmillan, Footnotes fr. Page Nature, 73. Minute, blackish, elevated, somewhat gelatinous points called *spermagonia, occurring on various parts of the upper surface of the thallus.
1880. Bessey, Botany, 299. Minute cells (the spermatia), which … are permitted to escape through the small opening at the apex of the spermagonium.
1847. Webster, *Spermaphore, in botany, that part of the ovary from which the ovules arise; it is synonymous with Placenta.
1891. Cent. Dict., *Spermaphyte.
1898. trans. Strasburger’s Text-bk. Bot., 432. They are also termed Seed-plants or Spermaphytes.
