egg

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Meaning

1. An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
2. An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
3. An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
4. Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
5. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
6. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
7. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
8. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
9. (informal) Senses relating to people.
10. Senses relating to people.
11. Senses relating to people.
12. Senses relating to people.
13. Senses relating to people.
14. (obsolete) Senses relating to people.
15. Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.
16. One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".

louse egg

full English breakfast

edge on

aerial bomb

chicken egg

hen’s egg

had-boiled egg

stone of fruit

cullion

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛɡ/

The noun is derived from Middle English eg, egg, egge (“egg of a domestic or wild fowl; egg of a snake”) [and other forms] (originally Northern England and Northeast Midlands), from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”) (by Holtzmann’s law), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), probably from *h₂éwis (“bird”), from *h₂ew- (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”) (in the sense of an animal clothed in feathers). Doublet of huevo, oeuf, and ovum. The native English ey [and other forms] (plural eyren) (obsolete), from Old English ǣġ, is also derived from Proto-Germanic *ajją. It survived into the 16th century before being fully displaced by egg. The verb is derived from the noun.