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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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