Alecithal

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Alecithal \A*lec"i*thal\, a. [Gr. 'a priv. + ? yelk.] (Biol.)
     Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have
     little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm.
     --Balfour.
     [1913 Webster]