Alecithal

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:42:54

A*lec"i*thal (#), a. [Gr. priv. + yelk.] Biol.

Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm.

Balfour.

 

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