rare. [In sense 1 f. SPERMO- + -LOGY. In sense 2 ad. Gr. σπερμολογία: cf. SPERMOLOGER.]
1. (See quot. and cf. SPERMATOLOGY.)
1882. Imp. Dict., IV. 155/1. Spermology, that branch of science which investigates sperm or seeds; a treatise on sperm or seeds.
2. An instance of babbling or trifling talk.
1890. Earle, Engl. Prose, xii. 485. For historical truth it is on a level with that favorite spermology of the Liberation Society, which seeks to diffuse the notion [etc.].