eusperm

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Noun

eusperm (plural eusperm)

  1. (zoology) In species that exhibit sperm heteromorphism, fertile sperm.
    • 2009, Daniel H. Shain, Annelids in Modern Biology, page 322:
      [] the eusperm (i.e. the fertilizing spermatozoa) are filamentous cells with a tapered, tubular, terminal acrosome, an extremely elongate nucleus, a cylindrical sometimes spiral midpiece formed by two to six radially adpressed mitochondria []

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