spermous
adjEtymology From sperm + -ous.
1
Relating to sperm.
- The other primary odour to be worked out by the specific anosmia method is the spermous or semen-like odour. 1-Pyrroline has the most pronounced spermous odour.1977, K. G. Scrimgeour, Chemistry and control of enzyme reactions, page 587:
- Derived terms
- angiomonospermous, chlorospermous, octospermous, xanthospermous