ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Vitellary

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /vɪˈtɛləɹi/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Vitellary is an adjective meaning (biology) Vitelline.

Meaning

(biology) Vitelline.

More Meanings

  1. (biology) A cluster of undeveloped eggs within the ovary of a female bird.
  2. The vitelline gland; a gland that produces yolk in some worms.

Example Sentences

Vitellary degeneration is recognizable as early as 4 days after injection of HCG.
Caloricity of the body of B. rubens was determine in preovigerous females, aged>24 h, in which it is probably higher (due to the development of ovary and vitellary), than in the precedent period of growth.
It is the Opinion of most, and that no without great Probability, that all the Eggs a Hen will ever lay, are contain'd in this Vitellary or Cluster, and that as soon as this Number is exhausted, she will become effœte or barren.
The gelatinous-looking investment which, as above seen, the ovum in the Fallopian tube presents in addition to the vitellary membrane (zona) of the ovarian ovum, was first indicated by the author of this report as the future chorion.

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Related dictionary entries include vitelligenous, vittariaceous, virginal, ovicellate, ovigenous, villous.

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