Word Meanings - VITELLUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum.

Related words: (words related to VITELLUS)

• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• ILLUSTROUS
  Without luster.
• ILLUSTRIOUS
  1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
• ILLUSTRATIVELY
  By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
• ILLUSTRATIVE
  1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
• ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
• ILLUSTRATION
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
• ILLUSTRIOUSLY
  In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton.
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• ILLUSTRATE
  1. To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman. 2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton. 3. To make clear,
• CONTENTS
  See N
• ILLUSTRATOR
  One who illustrates.
• ILLUSTRABLE
  Capable of illustration. Sir T. Browne.
• ILLUSTRATORY
  Serving to illustrate.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.