yolk

Noun
  1. The yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen (synset 107857321)
    hypernym: fixings, ingredient - food that is a component of a mixture in cooking
    part meronym: egg, eggs - oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
    synonym: egg yolk
  2. Nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) (synset 101467485)
    hypernym: food, nutrient - any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
    part meronym: egg - animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
    synonym: vitellus

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