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vegetal pole

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noun

Embryology.
  1. the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.


Etymology

Origin of vegetal pole

First recorded in 1895–1900


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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 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

The vegetal pole of the vertical axis is just in the centre of the primitive mouth.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

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