vitellaries

Noun

vitellary (plural vitellaries)

1. A cluster of undeveloped eggs within the ovary of a female bird.
   • It is the Opinion of most, and that no without great Probability, that all the Eggs a Hen will ever lay, are contain'd in this Vitellary or Cluster, and that as soon as this Number is exhausted, she will become effœte or barren.1879, John Moore, William Bernhard Tegetmeier, Moore's Columbarium, page 9
2. The vitelline gland; a gland that produces yolk in some worms.
   • In Asplanchnaceae, the germary is median, continuous at the distal end with the middle of the transverse horseshoe-shaped vitellary. In Bdelloidaceae and Seisonaceae the whole organ is paired, the germary proximal, the vitellary next the cloaca.1911, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 762

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