vegetal pole
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vegetal pole
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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It has arisen through the accumulation of a store of food-stuff at the vegetal pole, a "nutritive yelk" being thus formed in contrast to the "formative yelk."
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
The vegetal pole of the vertical axis is just in the centre of the primitive mouth.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
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