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Webster 1913 Edition

Halones

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Ha-lo′nes

(hȧ-lō′nēz)

,

Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ἄλων

,

ἄλωνος

, a halo.]

(Biol.)

Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.