a. [f. prec. + -GEN + -OUS.] Producing the vitellus or yolk.
1872. E. R. Lankester, Advancem. Sci. (1890), 265. The others disappear as … vitellogenous cells.
1878. F. J. Bell, Gegenbaur’s Comp. Anat., 301. This vitellogenous layer occupies the portion of the chamber behind the egg-cell.
