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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
vitellus
    n 1: nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of
         an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile
         egg) [syn: yolk, vitellus]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vitellus \Vi*tel"lus\, n. [L., the yolk of an egg.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. (Biol.) The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk.
      See Illust. of Ovum.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Bot.) Perisperm in an early condition.
      [1913 Webster]

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