- food yolk
- food yolk,the portion of the yolk of an egg that nourishes the embryo, as distinguished from the germinative portion.
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Food yolk — Food Food, n. [OE. fode, AS. f[=o]da; akin to Icel. f[ae][eth]a, f[ae][eth]i, Sw. f[ o]da, Dan. & LG. f[ o]de, OHG. fatunga, Gr. patei^sthai to eat, and perh. to Skr. p[=a] to protect, L. pascere to feed, pasture, pabulum food, E. pasture.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Food — Food, n. [OE. fode, AS. f[=o]da; akin to Icel. f[ae][eth]a, f[ae][eth]i, Sw. f[ o]da, Dan. & LG. f[ o]de, OHG. fatunga, Gr. patei^sthai to eat, and perh. to Skr. p[=a] to protect, L. pascere to feed, pasture, pabulum food, E. pasture. [root]75.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Food vacuole — Food Food, n. [OE. fode, AS. f[=o]da; akin to Icel. f[ae][eth]a, f[ae][eth]i, Sw. f[ o]da, Dan. & LG. f[ o]de, OHG. fatunga, Gr. patei^sthai to eat, and perh. to Skr. p[=a] to protect, L. pascere to feed, pasture, pabulum food, E. pasture.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
yolk sac — noun 1. membranous structure that functions as the circulatory system in mammalian embryos until the heart becomes functional • Syn: ↑vitelline sac, ↑umbilical vesicle, ↑vesicula umbilicus • Hypernyms: ↑sac 2. membranous structure enclosing the… … Useful english dictionary
yolk — yolked, adj. yolkless, adj. yolky, adj. /yohk, yohlk/, n. 1. the yellow and principal substance of an egg, as distinguished from the white. 2. Embryol. the part of the contents of the egg of an animal that enters directly into the formation of… … Universalium
yolk — also yoke noun Etymology: Middle English yolke, from Old English geoloca, from geolu yellow more at yellow Date: before 12th century 1. a. the yellow spheroidal mass of stored food that forms the inner portion of the egg of a bird or reptile and… … New Collegiate Dictionary
yolk — 1. One of the types of nutritive material stored in the ovum for the nutrition of the embryo; y. is particularly abundant and conspicuous in the eggs of birds. SYN: vitellus. 2. Fatty material found in the wool of sheep; when extracted and… … Medical dictionary
yolk — n. [A.S. geoloca, yolk] Stored food substances in the egg cell … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
yolk nucleus — a special area of the cytoplasm of an oocyte in which the synthetic activities leading to the accumulation of food supplies in the oocyte are apparently initiated; called also vitelline body and Balbiani n. or body … Medical dictionary
Egg (food) — Chicken egg redirects here. For the causality dilemma, see Chicken or the egg. On the left a chicken egg, the egg most commonly e … Wikipedia
