yelk
Americannoun
noun
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New cells are gradually formed from the nourishing yelk around the germ, each being at first roundish in shape, and having a spot near the centre, called the nucleus.
From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther
A small dog will require the yelk of one egg; and a Newfoundland the yelks of a dozen eggs.
From The Dog by Dinks
Yolk, yōk, Yelk, yelk, n. the yellow part of an egg: the vitellus of a seed: wool-oil.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Telolecithal: eggs with the yelk at one end.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
The yelk, being lighter than the white, rises upward, and the germ being still lighter, rises in the yelk.
From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther
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