Usually means: Sperm cell's enzyme-containing cap.
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  1. acrosome: Merriam-Webster
  2. acrosome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. acrosome: Collins English Dictionary
  4. acrosome: Vocabulary.com
  5. acrosome: Wordnik
  6. Acrosome: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  7. acrosome: Wiktionary
  8. acrosome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. acrosome: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. acrosome: Dictionary.com
  11. Acrosome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. acrosome: Rhymezone
  13. acrosome: FreeDictionary.org
  14. acrosome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. acrosome: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. acrosome: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acrosome: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. acrosome: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. acrosome: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (acrosome)

noun:  A structure forming the end of the head of a spermatozoon

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