Usually means: Lacking yolk in the egg.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. alecithal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. alecithal: Collins English Dictionary
  3. alecithal: Wordnik
  4. alecithal: Wiktionary
  5. alecithal: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. alecithal: Dictionary.com
  7. Alecithal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. alecithal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Alecithal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. alecithal: FreeDictionary.org
  11. alecithal: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. alecithal: Encyclopedia

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  1. alecithal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. alecithal: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (biology, of an ovum) Tending to segment uniformly, and having little or no yolk embedded in the protoplasm.

Similar:
amphiblastic, ectolecithal, homolecithal, mesolecithal, isolecithal, centrolecithal, heterolecithal, telolecithal, holoblastic, unioval, more...

Opposite:
telolecithal, centrolecithal, heterolecithal

Types:
monotrichous, lophotrichous, amphitrichous, peritrichous, plectotrichous, more...

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Similar:
amphiblastic, ectolecithal, homolecithal, mesolecithal, isolecithal, centrolecithal, heterolecithal, telolecithal, holoblastic, unioval, more...

Opposite:
telolecithal, centrolecithal, heterolecithal

Types:
monotrichous, lophotrichous, amphitrichous, peritrichous, plectotrichous, more...



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