Meanings
nounichthidin (uncountable)
- archaicuncountableA substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.
From these facts, it follows that the eggs of fishes of the family of Cyprinidæ, when only a little developed, contain, with a soluble substance ichthidin, a liquid strongly albuminous holding in solution mineral salts, […]
1855, A. Valenciennes and Frémy, “On the Composition of Eggs in the animal series”, in The American Journal of Science, volume XIX, page 241
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