different between vitellophage vs vitellus

English

Etymology

vitello- +? -phage

Noun

vitellophage (plural vitellophages)

1. Any of a class of cell, in the eggs of insects, crustaceans, and arachnids, that are not part of the future embryo, and have an uncertain function

English

Etymology

Latin vitellus (“the yolk of an egg”). Doublet of veal.

Noun

vitellus (countable and uncountable, plural vitelli or vitelluses)

1. (biology) The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk.
   • 1861, F. Rymer Jones, The General Structure of the Animal Kingdom (page 48)

     In the sarcodo there takes place a process which may be in some measure compared with what occurs in the vitellus after the fecundation of an ovum. The granules becoming united together form groups, which soon divide and subdivide […]

2. (botany) Perisperm in an early condition.

Related terms

• vitellophage

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of vitulus (“a bull calf”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?i?tel.lus/, [u???t??l???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vi?tel.lus/, [vi?t??l?us]

Noun

vitellus m (genitive vitell?); second declension

1. a small calf
2. the yolk of an egg

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (yolk of an egg): vitellum

Related terms

• vitulus

Descendants

References

• vitellus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vitellus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vitellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette