sb. and a. [f. L. vitell-us VITELLUS + -ARY.]
A. sb. † 1. The place or part where the yolk of an egg is formed. Obs.
1650. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep. (ed. 2), III. xxviii. 151. A greater difficulty … is, how the sperm of the Cock … attaineth unto every egg, since the vitellary or place of the yelk is very high.
1687. Phil. Trans., XVI. 482. Now this Fecundation seems to be in the Vitellary, and not in the Uterus.
† 2. (See quot.) Obs.–0
1736. Bailey (fol.), Pref., Vitellary … the Yolk of an Egg; but some use it to signify a Cluster of Eggs.
B. adj. Of or belonging to the vitellus; vitelline.
1846. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., IV. 307. There can be no mammiferous germ independent of vitellary matter.
1854. S. P. Woodward, Mollusca, II. 161. The contractions of this caudal vesicle and of the vitellary vesicle alternate.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vi. 323. A caecal process, the remains, according to Rathke, of one lobe of the vitellary sac of the embryo.
