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English meaning

  • egg noun An oval or round body laid by birds, reptiles, and many other animals, usually containing a developing embryo.
  • ovum noun The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.
  • roe noun The mass of eggs inside a female fish, often eaten as food.

Senses

卵 is used for these senses in English:

  • egg 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.
  • egg (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.
  • egg (countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
  • ovum (cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.
  • roe Eggs of fish.

egg — full definition

  1. noun An oval or round body laid by birds, reptiles, and many other animals, usually containing a developing embryo.
  2. noun The edible egg of a domestic bird, especially a chicken, used as food.
  3. noun The female reproductive cell of an animal, from which offspring develop when fertilized.
  4. verb To urge or encourage someone, usually into doing something reckless (used with "on").

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