tropholecithus (trofolesithus)

[NL., The nutritive yelk,... or tropholecithus ,... is a mere appendage of the true egg-cell, and contains hoarded food substance, so that it forms a sort of storehouse for the embryo in the course of its evolution. Haeckel , Evol. of Man (trans.), I. 216. trophoneurosis (trof"ō-nū-rō'sis), n.; pl. tropho neuroses (-sēz). [NL.,