yelk
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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But afterwards, while still within the oviduct, it takes up a quantity of nourishment and works this into the familiar large yellow yelk.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
There was apparently nothing remarkable about it, but by unscrewing, it came apart, and disclosed the yelk of gold.
From Views a-foot by Bayard Taylor
Dip them in the yelk of an egg beaten, then in a mixture of grated bread, or flour and salt and pepper, fry them a nice brown.
From Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers by Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott) Lea
The beauty of a poached egg is for the yelk to be seen blushing through the white, which should only be just sufficiently hardened, to form a transparent veil for the egg.
From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner
He described the first appearance of the vertebrate embryo, as it may be seen in the globular yelk of the fertilised egg, as an oval disk which first divides into two layers.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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