sperm bank

English

Noun

sperm bank (plural sperm banks)

  1. (medicine) A place where sperm from donors is stored for future use in artificial insemination.
    Synonym: cryobank
    • 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:
      Use of sperm banks would avoid mutations induced by radiation, Dr. Muller said.
    • 1971 January 26, Lucy Kavaler, “Sperm in the Deep‐Freeze”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      Frozen sperm banks make it possible to improve the breed of cattle, goats, chicken, even herring. Why not man?
  2. (vulgar) The vagina.

Translations
vulgar: vagina — see cunt

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