The eggs were large and yolky and few in number.

Approximately 10 yolky oocytes were noted in the examined specimen.

As these yolky eggs develop, they cleave radically, and become larvae.

There were a couple early morning hard-hats in the diner who looked up from their yolky eggs to glare at him.

Most bryozoans are hermaphrodites and produce large, yolky eggs.

Her efforts were hampered by the flow of yolky fluid from his broken flesh, which gummed everything up.

The raw yolky taste of life spilled into Christian's mouth, bubbling out of the boy fresh and strong.

The station was so small it looked like a cartoon; yolky yellow light from overhead bulbs hugged it close.

Arachnids usually lay yolky eggs, which hatch into immatures that resemble adults.

While the father was brooding, the mother was feasting, and making a new batch of rich, yolky eggs.

A virtual, uninflated, segmentation cavity forms, floored with large yolky cells.

Removed long before the shells had time to form, they were no more than a cluster of marble-sized orange balls in a thick yolky substance.

Coffee and the Portuguese speciality, a sweet, yolky pastèis de nata tart, costs just £2.20.

The vegetal pole contains large yolky cells that divide very slowly, in contrast with the animal pole above it.

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Oliver dragged him the few feet to where pale, yolky light from a distant hallway lantern puddled on the frayed edge of an ornate rug.

The embryology of Amathia vidovici has not been studied but most bryozoans produce large, yolky eggs which are retained in the body cavity.

Inside, the peritoneum of the coelomic cavities starts to disconnect from the main mass of the yolky mesenchyme cells.

Mouthbrooders carry the large, yolky embryos until they hatch, and these brooders typically carry the free embryos about as well.

This starfish produces large yolky eggs which develop directly into juvenile starfish without an intervening larval stage.

A blastoderm is the layer of cells formed at one pole of macrolecithal eggs such as the yolky egg of birds.

This involves the release by the female of buoyant, golden, yolky eggs, which are fertilised externally, and the development of brachiolaria larvae.

The yolky end of the egg (the vegetal pole) remains homogenous while the other end (the animal pole) undergoes cell division.

Amia cleavage is clearly holoblastic, producing about a dozen large yolky macromeres, upon which the smaller cells of the blastoderm rest [ 14].

One had been gouged in the face with something jagged; its nose was cleaved in half and an eyeball hung out of the socket, leaking yolky fluid.