yolk

[US]/jəʊk/
[UK]/jok/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.the yellow part of an egg; the fatty substance in the egg of certain animals

Phrases & Collocations

Hard-boiled egg yolk

Runny egg yolk

Egg yolk color

Separate egg yolk

egg yolk

yolk sac

yolk sac tumor

Example Sentences

The nutritive yolk of a meroblastic egg.

Yolk: yellow rugulosa Shorthair, Sititaxue.

beat the sugar and egg yolks together until thick and creamy.

ichthin A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.

Composition : Yolk Lecithin Essence , Stachyose Essence , Raffinose, Functose etc.

telolecithal Eggs having a large portion of yolk at one end, e.g. Myxini, Elasmobranchii, Holocephali, and many Teleostei.

A water-reducible, opaque, matte-finish paint in which an albuminous or colloidal medium (as egg yolk) is employed as a vehicle instead of oil or varnish.

vegetal pole Opposite to the animal pole on the egg. Later in embryonic development corresponds to the point on the yolk cell furthest from the developing blastodisc.

lecithotrophic larva A planktonic-dispersing larva that lives off yolk supplied via the egg, as in most bony fish.

The yolk-sphere crystals possess an orthorhombic lattice and the lipovitellin molecular particles in the crystalline body are arrayed in pseudohex-agonal pattern.

periblast A layer of tissue between the yolk and cells of blastoderm which is observed as a thin border around blastula.

Novel phosvitin phosphopeptides (PPP) were prepared by tryptic hydrolysis following alkaline dephosphorylation of hen egg yolk phosvitin.

In the present study, observations were made to determine if the yolk protein, vitellin, was released from the ovaries into the hemolymph without degradation during oosorption.

And the dense proteinous particles synthesized by these free ribosomes could be accumulated and developed directly in ooplasm into yolk granules without membranes.

residual fecundity The number of vitellogenic or advanced yolked oocytes in ovaries showing postovulatory follicles. This indicates that these emales had already spawned some eggs.

Homology analysis by BLAST online revealed that the clone F993-G10-A10-deduced encoding protein was similar to Vitellogenin structural genes (yolk protein genes) protein 1 of Caenorhabditis elegans.

Real-world Examples

I wanna try to land the yolk in the middle.

Source: Culinary methods for gourmet food

It's an egg yolk with a little butt crack.

Source: Vox opinion

Where's the yolk? Ooh. - The yolk is to come.

Source: Gourmet Base

You can add egg yolks, which makes the soup velvety.

Source: Victoria Kitchen

And then poke it in, waggle it around to break the yolk.

Source: Victoria Kitchen

First off we need the yolks of two eggs and one whole egg.

Source: BBC documentary "Mom's Home Cooking"

Oh, there's an egg yolk here.

Source: Gourmet Base

Typically, these treats also come filled with a salted duck egg yolk, representing the moon.

Source: Selected English short passages

It's okay, I only need the yolk.

Source: Gourmet Base

Checking out our yolk, it's congealed, it's gone a bit bitty.

Source: Gourmet Base

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