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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

Example Sentences

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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

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

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