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- Vitelligenous - a. - Producing yolk, or vitelline substance; -- applied to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the developing ova.
- Meroistic - a. - Applied to the ovaries of insects when they secrete vitelligenous cells, as well as ova.
- Panoistic - a. - Producing ova only; -- said of the ovaries of certain insects which do not produce vitelligenous cells.