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noun

Yolk n. (Written also yelk)

The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.

(Zool.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.

Yolk cord (Zool.), a slender cord or duct which connects the yolk glands with the egg chambers in certain insects, as in the aphids.

Yolk gland (Zool.), a special organ which secretes the yolk of the eggs in many turbellarians, and in some other invertebrates.

Yolk sack (Anat.), the umbilical vesicle. See under Unbilical.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Yolk" Quotes from Famous Books

... dear nurse will leave you alone; but, for all that, she that has eaten the yolk is scarce like to ...

— Becket and other plays • Alfred Lord Tennyson

... in the worst plight, for he went head first amongst the eggs, and was in consequence rather eggy. He was quite aware of his misfortune, and had been wiping the rich yolk off his face; but, not having a glass before him, he had made it rather smeary, and also left a goodly portion in the roots ...

— Hollowdell Grange - Holiday Hours in a Country Home • George Manville Fenn

... more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it with salt, and when I went to bed ate it, shell and all, without speaking ...

— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott

... The yellow or yolk of an egg remains in the middle of the albumen, without moving on either side; now it is either lighter or heavier than this albumen, or equal to it; if it is lighter, it ought to rise above all the albumen and stop in ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

... Dumas).—"Put in a salad-bowl a yolk of egg boiled hard; add a tablespoonful of oil, and make a paste of it; then add a few stalks of chervil chopped fine, a teaspoonful each of tunny and anchovy paste, a little French mustard, a small pickled cucumber chopped fine, the white of the egg chopped ...

— Fifty Salads • Thomas Jefferson Murrey

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