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vitelli

vitelli is the plural of vitellus.

Meaning of vitellus

Noun

vitellus (countable and uncountable, plural vitelli or vitelluses)

  1. (archaic) The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk.
    • In the sarcodo there takes place a process which may be in some measure compared with what occurs in the vitellus after the fecundation of an ovum. The granules becoming united together form groups, which soon divide and subdivide […]1861, F. Rymer Jones, The General Structure of the Animal Kingdom, page 48
  2. (archaic) Perisperm in an early condition, or when it surrounds the endosperm.
  3. An oily substance adhering to the spores of Lycopodium.

Proper noun capitalized: Vitelli

Vitelli (plural Vitellis)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Forms of vitelli

pluralVitellis

Origin of vitelli

Borrowed from Italian Vitelli.

Questions about vitelli

What does vitelli mean?
Vitelli means a surname from Italian.
What is vitelli the plural of?
Vitelli is the plural of vitellus.
What part of speech is vitelli?
Vitelli is a proper noun.

Words near vitelli in the dictionary

  1. vitellarias
  2. vitellaries
  3. vitellarium
  4. vitellariums
  5. vitellary
  6. vitelli
  7. vitellicle
  8. vitellicles
  9. vitelliferous
  10. vitelliform
  11. vitelligene

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vitelli (page history and authors); Vitelli (page history and authors); vitellus (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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