subventaneous
/ˌˈsʌbv(ə)nˈteɪnɪəs/ /ˌsʌbvɛnˈteɪnɪəs/adjective
Of an egg: unfertilized. Compare wind-egg. Now historical and rare.
Origin
Mid 17th century (in an earlier sense). From post-classical Latin subventaneus consisting of wind, empty, vain + -ous.
- Spanishness
- Spanish omelette
- Spanish onion
- Spanish practice
- Spanish rice
- Spanish Sahara
- Spanish Succession, War of the
- Spanish Town
- Spanish windlass
- spank
- spanker
- spanking
- spanner
- spanner in the works
- span of control
- spanspek
- spansule
- span-worm
- spar
- sparable
- sparagmos
- sparaxis
- spar buoy
- spar deck
- spare