Alecithal: Definition and part of speech

Alecithal

  1. a. Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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