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telolecithal
[ tel-oh-les-uh-thuhl, tee-loh- ]
adjective
, Embryology.
- having an accumulation of yolk near the vegetal pole, as the large-yolked eggs or ova of reptiles and birds.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of telolecithal1
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Example Sentences
Ova belonging to the former group are known as telolecithal ova, those to the latter as centrolecithal.
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The ova in which the yolk is especially concentrated at one pole I should propose to call telolecithal.
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There is a third group of ova including a series of types of segmentation nearly parallel to the telolecithal group.
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The Cephalopoda appear to be the only Invertebrates in which the egg is mesoblastic and telolecithal like that of Vertebrata.
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