Vegetal-pole
noun, Embryology.
1.
the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
vegetal pole n.
The part of a telolecithal egg in which the bulk of the yolk is situated. Also called vitelline pole.
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