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sperm bank en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A place where sperm from donors is stored for future use in artificial insemination.
   • Use of sperm banks would avoid mutations induced by radiation, Dr. Muller said. 1961 August 29, Donald Janson, “Sperm Bank Asked For Armed Forces; Radiation Damage Feared by Nobel Prize Winner”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page 26:
   • Frozen sperm banks make it possible to improve the breed of cattle, goats, chicken, even herring. Why not man? 1971 January 26, Lucy Kavaler, “Sperm in the Deep‐Freeze”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
2. (vulgar) The vagina.

Forms

Synonyms

spank bank · cryobank

Translations (16)

sv spermabank (place where sperm is stored) · pl bank spermy (place where sperm is stored) · ga banc speirme (place where sperm is stored) · fi spermapankki (place where sperm is stored) · hu spermabank (place where sperm is stored) · ru банк спермы (place where sperm is stored) · fr banque de sperme (place where sperm is stored) · ja 精子バンク (place where sperm is stored) · de Samenbank (place where sperm is stored) · kk шәует банкі (place where sperm is stored) · fr banque du sperme (place where sperm is stored) · pl bank nasienia (place where sperm is stored) · cs spermobanka (place where sperm is stored) · ar بَنْكُ الْمَنِيّ (place where sperm is stored) · cmn 精子庫 /精子库 (place where sperm is stored) · sk spermobanka (place where sperm is stored)