seminiferous
Americanadjective
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Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
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Botany. bearing or producing seed.
adjective
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containing, conveying, or producing semen
the seminiferous tubules of the testes
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(of plants) bearing or producing seeds
Etymology
Origin of seminiferous
1685–95; < Latin sēmin- (stem of sēmen ) seed, semen + -i- + -ferous
Example Sentences
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Coiled in each wedge are seminiferous tubules that produce sperm.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The walls of the seminiferous tubules are made up of the developing sperm cells, with the least developed sperm at the periphery of the tubule and the fully developed sperm in the lumen.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
A complex network of small tubes—the seminiferous tubules—travel throughout the testicles, allowing the sperm to reach their next destination: the epididymis.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2018
They extend physically around the germ cells from the peripheral basement membrane of the seminiferous tubules to the lumen.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
A few spermatozoa and spermatids remain in the seminiferous tubules during hibernation.
From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.
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