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Spermism
- - The theory, formerly held by many, that the sperm or spermatozoon contains the germ of the future embryo; animalculism.
Spermist
- - A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body.
Spermous
- adjective - consisting of or resembling spermatozoa
Squamata
- noun - diapsid reptiles: snakes and lizards
Squamoid
- - Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.
Squamous
- - Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.
Squamula
- - One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.
St. Mark
- noun - Apostle and companion of Saint Peter; assumed to be the author of the second Gospel