vitelli-combining form of L. vitellus vitellus, employed in a few scientific terms, as viteˈlliferous, viteˈlligenous, viteˈlligerous, viˈtelligineadjs., producing the vitellus or yolk.1819Lindley tr.Richard's Obs. Fruits & Seeds 52 The most simple *vitelliferous embryo.Ibid. 59 This embryo is composed, like those which are called vitelliferous, of two distinct bodies.1859Todd's Cycl.Anat. V. 121*/1 The ova, as they continue to descend in the *vitelligenous part of the tube,..assume the form of sub-triangular flattened bodies.1870Rolleston Anim. Life p. cxxv, A complicated reproductive apparatus, in which..vitelligenous exist independently of germigenous glands.1877Huxley Anat.Inv.Anim. vii. 442, I am inclined to believe that..these epithelial cells..play the part of vitelligenous cells.1898Proc.Zool.Soc. London 555 The larvæ of many Teleosteans..in the *vitelligerous condition.1864Cobbold Entozoa 214 The female organs..consist of two masses of *vitelligine glands occupying a limited space.