Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In embryology, having much food-yolk which is eccentric from the formative yolk, as the large meroblastic eggs of birds: correlated with alecithal (having no food-yolk) and centrolecithal (which see).
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- adjective of an egg having the
yolk at oneend
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In these "telolecithal" ova, or ova with the yelk at one end (for instance, in the cyclostoma and amphibia), the gastrulation then usually takes place in such a way that in the cleavage of the impregnated ovum the animal (usually the upper) half splits up more quickly than the vegetal (lower).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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An ovum such as this, in which the protoplasm is concentrated towards one pole, is called telolecithal.
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