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yolk Definition


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yolk
noun
    1. In the eggs of birds and some reptiles: the yellow spherical mass of nutritive material.
    2. cookery.
      This yellow part of an egg, as distinct from the white (sense 4). Also called egg-yolk, yolk of egg.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon geolca, from geolu yellow.



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