Definition of Chaleza

Definition of Chaleza

Chalaza, one of the two filaments attached to the ends of the yoke of an egg to steady it in the albumen.

- Wikipedia

||Cha*la"za (?), n.; pl. E. Chalazas, L. Chalazæ (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; hail, pimple.] 1. (Bot.) The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.

2. (Biol.) A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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