yolky
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yolky (comparative yolkier, superlative yolkiest)
- Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of yolk.
- 2008, Tracey Irene Smart, Reproductive and Larval Biology of the Northeastern Pacific Polychaete Owenia collaris (Family Oweniidae) in Coos Bay, OR (page 8)
- Eggs can either be very yolky and produce stereoblastulae or have little to no yolk and produce coeloblastulae.
- 2016, Martin Pousson, chapter 1, in Black Sheep Boy, Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books:
- The egg flew from my hand to the floor, setting off a display of yolky lightning along the way.
- 2008, Tracey Irene Smart, Reproductive and Larval Biology of the Northeastern Pacific Polychaete Owenia collaris (Family Oweniidae) in Coos Bay, OR (page 8)