yellow part of an egg
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Yolk Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.
The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.
(n.)
An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutAn oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.
yolk
\yolk\ (yōlk or yōk; 277), n. [oe. yolke, yelke, &yogh;olke, &yogh;elke, as. geoloca, geoleca, fr. geolu yellow. see yellow.] [written also yelk.]
1. the yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.
2. (zo?l.) an oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.
yolk
cord (zo?l.), a slender cord or duct which connects the yolk glands with the egg chambers in certain insects, as in the aphids.
yolk
gland (zo?l.), a special organ which secretes the yolk of the eggs in many turbellarians, and in some other invertebrates. see illust. of hermaphrodite in appendix.
yolk
sack (anat.), the umbilical vesicle. see under unbilical.
yolk
n : nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) [syn: vitellus]
similar words(5)
yolk cord
food yolk
yolk sac
yolk gland
yolk sack
Noun
1. nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)
(synonym) vitellus
(hypernym) food, nutrient
(part-holonym) egg
Yolk Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
An egg yolk is a part of an egg which feeds the developing embryo. The egg yolk is suspended in the egg white (known alternatively as albumen or glair/glaire) by one or two spiral bands of tissue called the chalazae. Prior to fertilization, the yolk together with the germinal disc is a single cell, one of the few single cells that can be seen by the naked eye.
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