telolecithal
/tel-oh-les-uh-thuhl, tee-loh-/US // ˌtɛl oʊˈlɛs ə θəl, ˌti loʊ- //
端石榴,端石膏,端木蕻良,端石榴园
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
Embryology.
- : having an accumulation of yolk near the vegetal pole, as the large-yolked eggs or ova of reptiles and birds.
Examples
Ova belonging to the former group are known as telolecithal ova, those to the latter as centrolecithal.
The ova in which the yolk is especially concentrated at one pole I should propose to call telolecithal.
There is a third group of ova including a series of types of segmentation nearly parallel to the telolecithal group.
The Cephalopoda appear to be the only Invertebrates in which the egg is mesoblastic and telolecithal like that of Vertebrata.
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