VITELLUS (vitelli)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: vitelli   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does vitellus mean? 

• VITELLUS (noun)
  The noun VITELLUS has 1 sense:

1. nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)

  Familiarity information: VITELLUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VITELLUS (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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

vitellus; yolk

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)