vitelline

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vitelline (vi-TEL-in, vi-TEL-een) - adj., of, pertaining to, or having the color of an egg yolk.


Outside of anatomy and zoology, it is almost always referring to that bright, saturated yellow. Borrowed around 1400 from Medieval Latin vitellīnus, from Latin vitellus, egg yolk, lit. little calf, from vitulus, calf.

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