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egg yolk

egg yolk noun: the central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg, yellow when fresh.

Noun

egg yolk (countable and uncountable, plural egg yolks)

  1. The central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg, yellow when fresh.
    Synonyms:
    ovoplasma, vitellus, yolk

egg yolk meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

egg yolk in Tamil

முட்டை மஞ்சள்கரு

egg yolk in Malayalam

egg yolk
ഉണ്ണി uṇṇi

Synonyms of egg yolk

Forms of egg yolk

pluralegg yolks
alternative formegg-yolk
alternative formeggyolk

Origin of egg yolk

From Middle English egyolk, egge yolk, equivalent to egg + yolk. Compare Dutch eigeel (“egg yolk”), German Low German Eigeel (“egg yolk”), German Eigelb (“egg yolk”), Swedish äggula (“egg yolk”).

Questions about egg yolk

What does egg yolk mean?
Egg yolk means the central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg, yellow when fresh.
What is egg yolk in Tamil?
Egg yolk in Tamil is முட்டை மஞ்சள்கரு. See Egg yolk meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is egg yolk?
Egg yolk is a noun.
What is the plural of egg yolk?
The plural of egg yolk is egg yolks.

Words near egg yolk in the dictionary

  1. egg whisks
  2. egg white
  3. egg whites
  4. egg wrack
  5. egg wracks
  6. egg yolk
  7. egg yolks
  8. egg-bird
  9. egg-birds
  10. egg-bound
  11. egg-capsule

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: egg yolk (page history and authors); egg yolk (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഉണ്ണി (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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