telolecithal

[ tel-oh-les-uh-thuhl, tee-loh- ]

adjective

, Embryology.

1. having an accumulation of yolk near the vegetal pole, as the large-yolked eggs or ova of reptiles and birds.

Word History and Origins

Origin of telolecithal¹

1875–80; telo- ² + Greek lékith ( os ) yolk + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Ova belonging to the former group are known as telolecithal ova, those to the latter as centrolecithal.

From Project Gutenberg

The ova in which the yolk is especially concentrated at one pole I should propose to call telolecithal.

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There is a third group of ova including a series of types of segmentation nearly parallel to the telolecithal group.

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The Cephalopoda appear to be the only Invertebrates in which the egg is mesoblastic and telolecithal like that of Vertebrata.

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