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Yolk vs Vitelligenous - What's the difference?

yolk | vitelligenous |

As a noun yolk

is the yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.

As an adjective vitelligenous is

(zoology) producing yolk, or vitelline substance; applied to certain cells formed in the ovaries of insects and supposed to supply nutrition to the developing ova.

yolk

English

(wikipedia yolk)

Alternative forms

* yelk (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.
    • To make meringue, you have to separate the white from the yolk .
  • The grease in a sheep's fleece.
  • * 1846 , The Cultivator (page 270)
    • Wool-growers appear to entertain different opinions in regard to the effect which yolk has on the value of the fleece. Some seem to suppose that the aggregate amount which they receive for their wool is increased from the greater weight which it possesses by being charged with this substance

    vitelligenous

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (zoology) Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; applied to certain cells formed in the ovaries of insects and supposed to supply nutrition to the developing ova.
    • (Webster 1913)