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Egg yolk
noun
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Noun
- 1 The central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg, yellow when fresh. countable, uncountable
- 2 the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English egyolk, egge yolk, equivalent to egg + yolk. Compare Dutch eigeel (“egg yolk”), German Low German Eigeel (“egg yolk”), German Eigelb (“egg yolk”), Swedish äggula (“egg yolk”).
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