Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of glands in flatworms and certain other invertebrates that secrete yolk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A special gland of the female generative apparatus of some worms, additional to the germarium, in which gland an accessory vitelline substance is formed. See
germarium , and cuts underTrematoda and Rhabdocœla.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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An experienced worker would recognize the bag-like organ (arrow) along the lower body wall as a vitellarium (the other vitellarium would be on the opposite side).
Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009
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An experienced worker would recognize the bag-like organ (arrow) along the lower body wall as a vitellarium (the other vitellarium would be on the opposite side).
How likely is it to find a male bdelloid rotifer? AYDIN 2009
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Bpvasa and Bpnos RNA expression have very similar distributions in the Brachionus ovary, showing ubiquitous expression in the vitellarium, with higher levels in the putative germ cell cluster.
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An experienced worker would recognize the bag-like organ (arrow) along the lower body wall as a vitellarium (the other vitellarium would be on the opposite side).
SNAIL'S TALES 2009
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