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telolecithal

/tel-oh-les-uh-thuhl, tee-loh-/US // ˌtɛl oʊˈlɛs ə θəl, ˌti loʊ- //

端石榴,端石膏,端木蕻良,端石榴园

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Embryology.

    • : having an accumulation of yolk near the vegetal pole, as the large-yolked eggs or ova of reptiles and birds.

Examples

  • Ova belonging to the former group are known as telolecithal ova, those to the latter as centrolecithal.

  • The ova in which the yolk is especially concentrated at one pole I should propose to call telolecithal.

  • There is a third group of ova including a series of types of segmentation nearly parallel to the telolecithal group.

  • The Cephalopoda appear to be the only Invertebrates in which the egg is mesoblastic and telolecithal like that of Vertebrata.

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