| 单词 | egg |
| 释义 | egg (once / 100 pages) 1nv 2n An egg is the shell-covered, roundish object that's laid by birds and reptiles, which usually has an embryo inside. When an egg hatches, a baby chick, snake, or lizard comes out. Fertile eggs are the ones that become animals, while those laid by infertile birds are the kind you eat, scrambled or fried, for breakfast. The ovum, a reproductive cell in female animals, including humans, is also an egg. Colloquially, if you "lay an egg," you make a total mess of something, and if you "have egg on your face," you look foolish. If, however, you're considered a "good egg," you're a pal or a nice person. WORD FAMILYegg: egged, egging, eggs USAGE EXAMPLESNo problem: you read somewhere that eggs are pretty much the world’s most perfect food. Time(Dec 01, 2016) IN THE past decade British chickens have laid about 100bn eggs, with most of them coming from caged hens. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) You’ve heard the horror stories about many Americans retiring with puny nest eggs and little income to live on. Time(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1n animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds Hypo|Hyper nit egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing spawnthe mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs roethe eggs or egg-laden ovary of a fish silkworm seedeggs of a silkworm roeeggs of female fish roethe egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans such as the lobster egg cell, ovum the female reproductive cell; the female gamete 2n oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food Syn|Hyper eggs food product, foodstuff a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food 3v throw eggs at Hyper bombard, pelt cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile 4v coat with beaten egg 2egg a schnitzel Hyper coat, surface put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface n one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens Hypo|Hyper cobblers a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball) undescended testicle, undescended testisa testis that fails to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops gonad, sex gland a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced male reproductive glandthe reproductive organs of a man |
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