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   Yelk (?), n. Same as Yolk.
   
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   Yolk (yōlk or yōk; 277), n. [OE. yolke, yelke, ȝolke, ȝelke, AS. geoloca, geoleca, fr. geolu yellow.  See Yellow.] [Written also yelk.]
   
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   1. The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.
   
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   2. (Zool.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.
   
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   Yolk cord (Zool.), a slender cord or duct which connects the yolk glands with the egg chambers in certain insects, as in the aphids. -- Yolk gland (Zool.), a special organ which secretes the yolk of the eggs in many turbellarians, and in some other invertebrates.  See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Appendix. -- Yolk sack (Anat.), the umbilical vesicle.  See under Unbilical.
   
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