Usually means: Cord-like structures in eggs.
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  1. chalazae: Merriam-Webster
  2. chalazae: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chalazae: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chalazae: Vocabulary.com
  5. chalazae: Wiktionary
  6. chalazae: Dictionary.com
  7. Chalazae: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Chalazae: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Chalazae: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. chalazae: FreeDictionary.org
  11. chalazae: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. chalazae: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chalazae: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. chalazae: Medical dictionary

(Note: See chalaza as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (chalaza)

noun:  (botany) The location where the nucellus attaches to the integuments, opposite the micropyle.
noun:  (zoology) One of the two spiral bands which attach the yolk of an egg to the eggshell, suspending it in the white.
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