resting egg
Zoology
noun
A fertilized egg which can remain dormant through the winter or other unfavourable period before hatching.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in The Intellectual Observer.
- ethnic group
- ethnicism
- ethnicist
- ethnicity
- ethnic minority
- ethno-
- ethnoarchaeological
- ethnoarchaeologist
- ethnoarchaeology
- ethnobiology
- ethnobotanic
- ethnobotanical
- ethnobotanically
- ethnobotanist
- ethnobotany
- ethnocentred
- ethnocentric
- ethnocentrically
- ethnocentricity
- ethnocentrism
- ethnocentrist
- ethnocide
- ethnocultural
- ethnogenesis
- ethnogenic