a. Phys. [f. SPERMATOZO-ON + -AL.] Of or pertaining to spermatozoa; of the nature of a spermatozoon. So Spermatozoan, -zoic adjs.
1858. J. W. Draper, Human Physiol. (ed. 2), 518. Spermatozoic filaments, developing in Certhea vulgaris.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., xii. 661. The ascription of a spermatozoal nature to the striæ of the modified endoplastules is not warranted.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, Introd. p. xxv. Fusion of the nuclei, often termed the male (spermatozoal) and female (ovular) pronuclei.
