ˈspermogone Bot.
Anglicized form of next.
| 1856 W. L. Lindsay Pop. Hist. Brit. Lichens 72 The cavity of the spermogone is usually simple and rounded. 1862 Ansted Channel Isl. ii. viii. 189 His specimens were covered with spermatiferous spermogones. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 555/1 The spermogones, which are the presumed male organs of reproduction,..differ in appearance from the apothecia in being very minute corpuscles. |