yelk
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noun
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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
Prepare it as before, score the top, wash it over with the yelk of an egg, sprinkle some salt, and cover it with bread crumbs, bake it, and pour caper sauce in the dish.
From The Virginia Housewife by Mary Randolph
The dog itself ought to be washed with eggs and water, as before directed; but with the yelk of every egg a teaspoonful of spirits of turpentine should be blended.
From The Dog by Dinks
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
In the thick fine-grained yelk we find a clear round germinal vesicle of about 1/750 of an inch in diameter, and this encloses a small embryonic spot or nucleolus.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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