telolecithal

[ tel-oh-les-uh-thuhl, tee-loh- ]

adjective

, Embryology.

1. having an accumulation of yolk near the vegetal pole, as the large-yolked eggs or ova of reptiles and birds.

Word History and Origins

Origin of telolecithal¹

1875–80; telo- ² + Greek lékith ( os ) yolk + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Segmenting unequally; Ð said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.

From Project Gutenberg

The Cephalopoda appear to be the only Invertebrates in which the egg is mesoblastic and telolecithal like that of Vertebrata.

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An ovum such as this, in which the protoplasm is concentrated towards one pole, is called telolecithal.

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Telolecithal: eggs with the yelk at one end.

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