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VITELLUS
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Irregular inflected form: vitelli
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)
Synonyms:
vitellus; yolk
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vitellus" is a kind of...):
food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)
Holonyms ("vitellus" is a part of...):
egg (animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds)
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