Biol. Also -ide. [f. L. spermat-, stem of sperma sperm + -ID.] A seminal cell that develops into a spermatozoon.
1889. Geddes & Thomson, Evol. Sex, ix. 113. The sperm or spermatozoon is differentiated from an inmature cell or spermatide.
1904. Biol. Bulletin, Feb., 150. There is the normal number of two chromosomes. The ovotid and the spermatid have each only one.
