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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having a yolk that is concentrated at one end: a telolecithal egg.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In embryology, having much food-yolk which is eccentric from the formative yolk, as the large meroblastic eggs of birds: correlated with alecithal (having no food-yolk) and centrolecithal (which see).

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  1. adj. of an egg having the yolk at one end

Etymologies

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

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  • “In these "telolecithal" ova, or ova with the yelk at one end (for instance, in the cyclostoma and amphibia), the gastrulation then usually takes place in such a way that in the cleavage of the impregnated ovum the animal (usually the upper) half splits up more quickly than the vegetal (lower).”

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1

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

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata

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  1. heterolecithal
  1. perilecithal
  1. telolecithal
  1. amphiblastic
  1. micromere

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