Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The so-called yolk-cavity of a meroblastic ovum; the central space in the yellow food-yolk of such an egg, as a bird's, where there is an interior ball of white yolk, connected by a thread of the same substance with the tread or cicatricula on the surface of the yolk.
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Latibulum is okay, but I hope you like latebra, lair, as much as I do. oh, yes!
Archive 2005-09-01 Holly 2005
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Latibulum is okay, but I hope you like latebra, lair, as much as I do. oh, yes!
“Hi servi invivi quos quaeris non sunt.”* Holly 2005
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From the tread a thin column of the white yelk penetrates through the yellow yelk to the centre of the globular cell, where it swells into a small, central globule (wrongly called the yelk-cavity, or latebra, Figure 1.15 d apostrophe).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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domicilium = abode, dwelling-place domus = home, house latibulum = hiding-place, retreat, subterfuge latebra = hiding-place, den, lair
“Hi servi invivi quos quaeris non sunt.”* Holly 2005
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domicilium = abode, dwelling-place domus = home, house latibulum = hiding-place, retreat, subterfuge latebra = hiding-place, den, lair
Archive 2005-09-01 Holly 2005
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