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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having a yolk that is evenly distributed throughout: a homolecithal egg.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In embryology, having the food-yolk uniformly distributed throughout the egg, as in alecithal eggs: opposed to heterolecithal.

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  1. homo- + Greek lekithos, egg yolk + -al1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. heterolecithal
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