zoospermatic, adj.

zoospermatic
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# † zoospermaticadjective

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective zoospermatic mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective zoospermatic. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the 1870s.

### Where does the adjective zoospermatic come from?

Earliest known use

1840s

The earliest known use of the adjective zoospermatic is in the 1840s.

OED's earliest evidence for zoospermatic is from 1845, in the writing of J. Bell.

### Nearby entries

1. zoopraxinoscope, n. 1889–
2. zoopraxiscope, n. 1881–
3. zoopraxography, n. 1891–
4. zoopsychology, n. 1847–
5. zooscopic, adj. 1817–
6. zooscopy, n. 1891–
7. zoosematic, adj. 1898–1909
8. zoosemiotics, n. 1963–
9. zoosophy, n. 1662–1848
10. zoosperm, n. 1824–
11. zoospermatic, adj.1845–79
12. zoosporangiophore, n. 1889–
13. zoosporangium, n. 1862–
14. zoospore, n. 1842–
15. zoosporic, adj. 1854–
16. zoosporous, adj. 1845–
17. zoot, n. 1942–
18. zootaxy, n. 1833–
19. zootechnic, adj. 1861–
20. zootechnics, n. 1863–
21. zootechny, n. 1841–

## Meaning & use

Obsolete.

1. 1845–79
   Of or relating to a zoosperm.
   1. 1845

      > We cannot always or often procure from the poor patient recent semen, and of course are deprived of the test of zoospermatic movements.

      J. Bell in J. Bell & W. Stokes, Lect. Theory & Pract. Physic (ed. 3) vol. I. lxvi. 691
   2. 1879

      > The presence of corpuscles of a zoospermatic nature in Spongilla appeared..to establish as an assured fact the existence of a sexual differentiation in the sponges.

      Journal of Royal Microscopical Society vol. 2 73
   physiology
   1. zoospermatic 1845–79
      Of or relating to a zoosperm.
   2. spermatozoic 1858–
   3. spermatozoal 1877–
      Of or pertaining to spermatozoa; of the nature of a spermatozoon.
   4. spermatozoan 1954–
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Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.