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Word: Alecithal
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
late 19th century; earliest use found in Francis Maitland Balfour (1851–1882), comparative embryologist and morphologist. From a- + ancient Greek λέκιθος yolk + -al
Definition:
Of an ovum: containing no yolk or little yolk; = microlecithal.
