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One who treats of, or collects, seeds. Bailey.

Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher.

A spermatophore.

Plants which produce seed; phænogamia. These plants constitute the highest grand division of the vegetable kingdom.

Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace phænogam.

Capable of producing seeds; phænogamic.

The protoplasm of the sperm cell. Haeckel.

A mass or ball of cells formed by the repeated division of a male germinal cell (spermospore), each constituent cell (spermoblast) of which is converted into a spermatozoid; a spermatogemma.

The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids; a spermatospore. Balfour.

A sperm cell. Haeckel.

Producing one seed only in a seed pod.

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

Same as Angiospermous.

Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

Aspermous.

Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.

Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely.

The seed of gold; a means of creating gold. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed.

Containing only two seeds; two-seeded.