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vitelline

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or associated with the yolk of an egg.
  • adjective Having the yellow hue of an egg yolk; dull yellow.
  • noun The yolk of an egg.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the vitellus, or yolk of an egg; forming a vitellus, as protoplasm: said especially of the large mass of food-yolk or deutoplasm of a meroblastic egg, or of the vitellicle.
  • In enton. and botany, colored like the yolk of an egg; deep-yellow with a tinge of red.
  • Also vitellary.
  • noun Yolk; the vitellus; the vitellary substance. See I., 1.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Of or pertaining to the yolk of eggs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling the yolk of an egg

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[vitell(us) + –ine.]

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Examples

  • A. Egg of the Dog, with the vitelline membrane burst, so as to give exit to the yolk, the germinal vesicle (a), and its included spot (b).

    Essays 2007

  • This egg consists of an outer envelope, the vitelline membrane, containing a fluid more or less dense, the yolk; within this is a second envelope, the so-called germinative vesicle, containing a somewhat different and more transparent fluid, and in the fluid of this second envelope float one or more so-called germinative specks.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

  • While the eggs of the carbonaceous fed hens were large, of fine flavor, of natural smell, large normal albumen, an especially large, rich yellow yolk, with strong vitelline membrane, which was perfectly preserved after being kept for weeks in the same brine with the other eggs.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 Various

  • Oölemma: the cell wall of an egg: see vitelline membrane.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • The eggs laid by the nitrogenous fed hens were of small size, having a disagreeable flavor and smell, watery albumen, an especially small, dark colored yolk, with a tender vitelline membrane, which turned black after being kept several weeks.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 Various

  • The vitelline vessels and duct, together with the right umbilical vein, undergo atrophy and disappear; and thus the cord, at birth, contains a pair of umbilical arteries and one (the left) umbilical vein.

    I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta 1918

  • The lateral leaves of somatopleure then grow round on each side, and, meeting on the ventral aspect of the allantois, enclose the vitelline duct and vessels, together with a part of the extra-embryonic celom; the latter is ultimately obliterated.

    I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta 1918

  • With the rapid elongation of the embryo and the formation of the tail fold, the body stalk comes to lie on the ventral surface of the embryo (Figs. 27 and 28), where its mesoderm blends with that of the yolk-sac and the vitelline duct.

    I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta 1918

  • Included in this tissue are the body-stalk and the vitelline duct—the former containing the allantoic diverticulum and the umbilical vessels, the latter forming the communication between the digestive tube and the yolk-sac.

    I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta 1918

  • The remains of the vitelline duct and yolk-sac may be sometimes observed beneath the amnion, close to the cord, the former as an attenuated thread, the latter as a minute sac.

    I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta 1918

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  • knitandpurl commented on the word vitelline

    "In truth, Bendor was so bizarre that it quite neutralised the effect of the LSD; and it wasn't until we were back in Bandol, at one of those café-bars that charges forty quid for a vitelline-hued cocktail in a glass the size of a vitrine, that I remembered I was hallucinating."

    Psychogeography by Will Self, 113

    October 16, 2010

  • qms commented on the word vitelline

    I have found at least eight proposed pronunciations for this word. The first syllable can be vi, vuh, or vai. and the third syllable can be in, ine, or een. Stress can fall on any of the three syllables. What is a rhymer to do?

    As how to pronounce there's no tellin'.

    I guess it could rhyme with Magellan,

    (But, oh, the disgrace

    Of egg on my face

    If I misrepresent vitelline!

    )

    Should I opt for a course anodyne

    And yoke it with Sweet Adeline?

    (But, ah, the crude jokes

    About curdled yolks

    If I'm wrong about damned vitelline!

    )

    I wonder would rules contravene

    If I drag in the works of Racine?

    (But hear my shell cracking

    From the shellacking

    I'll take for a failed vitelline.

    )

    April 11, 2016