egg
/ɛɡ/
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell during its development
- plural
- eggs
Meanings
- 1
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell during its development
I have eaten an egg.
Tatoeba · humding3r · CC BY 2.0 FR
The world is an egg.
Tatoeba · rul · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.; The (usually) non-developing, edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as foodrare
- 3
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.; A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate eggrare
- 4
Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cellrare
- 5
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1)rare
- 6
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).; A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injuryrare
- 7
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).; Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapesrare
- 8
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).; A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's eggrare
- 9
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).; A bomb or minerare
- 10
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).; A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destructionrare