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egg noun

  /eɪɡ/ , /ɛɡ/
  • (specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
  • 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.
  • (countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
 ei
Easter egg
paasei, chocolade-ei
lay an egg
leggen
egg-shaped
eivormig
scrambled egg
roerei
fried egg
spiegelei
egg roll
loempia
egg tooth
eitand
egg timer
eierwekker
chicken-or-egg question
kip-en-eiprobleem
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