spermospore

spermospore englanniksi

1. The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids.

2. 1880-1881, (w), ''A Treatise on Comparative Embryology''

The spermatozoa are formed either by the direct division of the spermospores into a number of cells , spermoblasts , each of which grows into a spermatozoon ; or by the nucleus of the spermospore becoming subdivided within the cell body