combining form of L. vitellus VITELLUS, employed in a few scientific terms, as vitelli·ferous, vitelli·genous, vitelli·gerous, vite·lligine adjs., producing the vitellus or yolk.
1819. Lindley, trans. Richard’s Obs. Fruits & Seeds, 52. The most simple *vitelliferous embryo. Ibid., 59. This embryo is composed, like those which are called vitelliferous, of two distinct bodies.
1859. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., V. 121*/1. The ova, as they continue to descend in the *vitelligenous part of the tube,… assume the form of sub-triangular flattened bodies.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, p. cxxv. A complicated reproductive apparatus, in which … vitelligenous exist independently of germigenous glands.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vii. 442. I am inclined to believe that … these epithelial cells … play the part of vitelligenous cells.
1898. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 555. The larvæ of many Teleosteans … in the *vitelligerous condition.
1864. T. S. Cobbold, Entozoa, 214. The female organs … consist of two masses of *vitelligine glands occupying a limited space.
