Definition of Egg

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Definition of Egg

Egg

The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.

A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.

Anything resembling an egg in form.

To urge on; to instigate; to incite/

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Egg Quotations

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.
Bob Hope

I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.
Jack LaLanne

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.
Dave Barry

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.
Conan O'Brien

Egg Translations

egg in Afrikaans is ei
egg in Dutch is ei
egg in Finnish is muna
egg in French is oeuf
egg in German is Ei
egg in Italian is uovo
egg in Norwegian is egg
egg in Portuguese is ovo
egg in Spanish is huevo

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