-sperm
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Seed:
种子：
endosperm.
胚乳
语源
- Greek -spermos
希腊语 -spermos - from sperma [seed] * see sperm 1
源自 sperma [种子] *参见 sperm1
-sperm
combining form in countable noun
(in botany) a seed
⇒
gymnosperm
Derived Forms
-spermous, -spermal combining form in adjective-sperm
Word Origin
1
a combining form with the meaning “one having seeds” of the kind specified by the initial element:
gymnosperm.
Origin
< Greek -spermos; see -spermous
Related Words
- -spermal
- -spermic
- agamospermy
- angiosperm
- dispermy
- gymnosperm
-sperma suffixal use of sperm1, as in angiosperm.