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Chalaza vs Gallature - What's the difference?

chalaza | gallature |

As nouns the difference between chalaza and gallature

is that chalaza is (zoology) one of the two spiral bands which attach the yolk of an egg to the eggshell, suspending it in the white while gallature is (nonce|obsolete) the chalaza of an egg.

chalaza

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (zoology) One of the two spiral bands which attach the yolk of an egg to the eggshell, suspending it in the white.
  • (botany) The location where the nucellus attaches to the integuments, opposite the micropyle.

    • Related terms

    * chalazal ----

    gallature

    English

    Noun

  • (nonce, obsolete) The chalaza of an egg.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
    (Webster 1913) ----