noun
egg
EG/eɡ/
An oval object laid by a bird or other animal, containing a developing young animal or used as food.
A whole egg lies beside a cracked egg with its yolk exposed.
Etymology
Old Norse egg named the same reproductive body. It displaced a related native English term, becoming the familiar word for a bird’s egg, including one used as food.
In context
back to eastern egg rock where it laid its egg on the same rock that it laid it the year before
More examples
- She added two eggs to the mixture.
- The bird laid an egg in the nest.
- They watched the eggs hatch.
Forms
egg · eggs
Similar words
- ovum
- The technical term for an egg cell, without necessarily the shell-covered object.