Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In embryology, nothing those ova which have the food-yolk peripheral in position, and thus exterior to the formative yolk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg.
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- adjective biology Having the
food yolk , at thecommencement ofsegmentation , in aperipheral position, and thecleavage process confined to the centre of theegg .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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