Spermist

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spermist \Sperm"ist\, n. (Biol.)
     A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement
     in the male (see {Encasement}), in which the seminal thread,
     or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the
     head being the true animal head and the tail the body.
     [1913 Webster]