yolk
Noun
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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 cookingsynonym: egg yolk
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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 tissuepart 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 birdssynonym: vitellus
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