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The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a

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The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozoön. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.

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• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• CILIATE; CILIATED
  Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.
• PROVIDENCE
  A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PROVIDORE
  One who makes provision; a purveyor. De Foe.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• CILIA
  The eyelashes.
• MICROSCOPIC; MICROSCOPICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the microscope or to microscopy; made with a microscope; as, microscopic observation. 2. Able to see extremely minute objects. Why has not man a microscopic eye Pope. 3. Very small; visible only by the aid of a microscope;
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• ANIMALCULE
  An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• FERTILIZATION
  The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization
• ESSENTIAL
  Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones. (more info) 1. Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. Majestic as the
• PROVIDE
  1. To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare. "Provide us all things necessary." Shak. 2. To supply; to afford; to contribute. Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind,
• ELEMENTALISM
  The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• DOMICILIAR
  A member of a household; a domestic.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• SUPRACILIARY
  Superciliary.
• RETROACTIVE
  Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute , one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• REFRACTIVE
  Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. Refractive index. See Index of refraction, under Index. -- Absolute refractive index , the index of refraction
• CONCILIATIVE
  Conciliatory. Coleridge.
• CONCILIATORY
  Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating. The only alternative, therefore, was to have recourse to the conciliatory policy. Prescott.