vitelli-
combining form of L. vitellus vitellus, employed in a few scientific terms, as viteˈlliferous, viteˈlligenous, viteˈlligerous, viˈtelligine adjs., producing the vitellus or yolk.
| 1819 Lindley tr. Richard's Obs. Fruits & Seeds 52 The most simple *vitelliferous embryo. Ibid. 59 This embryo is composed, like those which are called vitelliferous, of two distinct bodies. |
| 1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. V. 121*/1 The ova, as they continue to descend in the *vitelligenous part of the tube,..assume the form of sub-triangular flattened bodies. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life p. cxxv, A complicated reproductive apparatus, in which..vitelligenous exist independently of germigenous glands. 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vii. 442, I am inclined to believe that..these epithelial cells..play the part of vitelligenous cells. |
| 1898 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 555 The larvæ of many Teleosteans..in the *vitelligerous condition. |
| 1864 Cobbold Entozoa 214 The female organs..consist of two masses of *vitelligine glands occupying a limited space. |