"alecithal" meaning in English

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          "text": "1880-1881, Francis Maitland Balfour, A Treatise on Comparative Embryology\nIt is convenient to distinguish the ova which segment uniformly by some term ; and I should propose for this the term alecithal, as implying that they are without food-yolk or […] little"
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        "Tending to segment uniformly, and having little or no yolk embedded in the protoplasm."
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          "yolk",
          "yolk"
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          "protoplasm",
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        "(biology, of an ovum) Tending to segment uniformly, and having little or no yolk embedded in the protoplasm."
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        "of an ovum"
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          "word": "alécithe"
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          "text": "1880-1881, Francis Maitland Balfour, A Treatise on Comparative Embryology\nIt is convenient to distinguish the ova which segment uniformly by some term ; and I should propose for this the term alecithal, as implying that they are without food-yolk or […] little"
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        "(biology, of an ovum) Tending to segment uniformly, and having little or no yolk embedded in the protoplasm."
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