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^[1], →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^[2], →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

place where sperm is stored

• Arabic: بَنْكُ الْمَنِيّ m (banku l-maniyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 精子庫／精子库 (jīngzǐkù)

• Czech: spermobanka f
• Finnish: spermapankki (fi)
• French: banque de sperme (fr) f, banque du sperme (fr) f
• German: Samenbank (de) f
• Hungarian: spermabank (hu)
• Irish: banc speirme m
• Japanese: 精子バンク (せいしバンク, seishi banku)
• Kazakh: шәует банкі (şäuet bankı)
• Polish: bank spermy (pl) m
• Russian: банк спермы m (bank spermy)
• Slovak: spermobanka f
• Swedish: spermabank (sv) c

vulgar: vagina — see cunt

Further reading

• sperm bank on Wikipedia.Wikipedia