maleness-bearing

Updated: May 1, 2025

The cell derived from the father is always male as goes without saying, we might add, if we knew little of the subject. But the ovum, the cell derived from the mother, may carry either femaleness or maleness. When an ovum bearing maleness meets the invariably maleness-bearing sperm, the resultant individual is a male, of course, and he is male all through.

C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby - Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles