English word senses marked with lifeform category "Eggs"

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Total 90 word senses

• Columbus egg (Noun) A hard-boiled egg cut in half and filled with a mixture of its yolk with ham, cream, and nutmeg.
• Easter egg (Noun) A dyed or decorated egg, traditionally associated with Easter and, in the Western European tradition, sometimes hidden for children to find.
• albumen (Noun) The endosperm of flowering plants.
• bad egg (Noun) An egg that has gone bad; a rotten egg.
• battery cage (Noun) A small cage in which a hen is kept to lay eggs.
• boiled egg (Noun) An egg which has been cooked in the shell in boiling water. It can be hard-boiled or soft-boiled.
• buck rarebit (Noun) A Welsh rarebit topped with a poached egg.
• cackle-fart (Noun) A chicken's egg.
• cackleberry (Noun) An egg.
• caviar (Noun) Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.
• century egg (Noun) A Chinese delicacy made by preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime and rice hulls for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing.
• chick culling (Noun) In agriculture, the culling (destruction) of chicks (baby birds, typically chickens). In the egg industry, this means destruction of male chicks at birth because they won't lay eggs.
• cloud egg (Noun) A dish made with whipped egg whites baked with the yolks nestled in the center, resulting in a fluffy texture.
• clutch (Noun) The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
• clutch (Noun) Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
• clutch (Noun) A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs; a sitting.
• dippy eggs (Noun) Eggs cooked over easy or soft-boiled.
• egg (Noun) Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
• egg (Verb) To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
• egg salad (Noun) A dish made primarily of chopped hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise, often including other ingredients such as celery or mustard; it is frequently used as a sandwich spread.
• egg white (Noun) The clear part of an egg surrounding the yolk, which turns white when cooked or beaten.
• egg yolk (Noun) The central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg, yellow when fresh.
• eggcellent (Adjective) Excellent, when referring to eggs or Easter.
• eggceptional (Adjective) Exceptional, when referring to eggs or Easter.
• eggciting (Adjective) Exciting, when referring to eggs.
• eggcup (Noun) A small dish used to support a boiled egg while it is eaten.
• eggel (Noun) A bagel sandwich with an egg filling.
• egginess (Noun) The state or quality of being eggy.
• eggless (Adjective) Having or containing no eggs.
• egglike (Adjective) Resembling or characteristic of an egg; ovate.
• eggling (Noun) The sale of eggs; the trade of an eggler.
• eggling (Noun) A small, miniature, undersized, or underdeveloped egg.
• eggnog (Noun) A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy, or whisky; popular at Christmas.
• eggsactly (Adverb) Exactly, when referring to eggs or Easter.
• eggshell (Noun) The shell around an egg.
• eggshell (Adjective) Exhibiting the thinness, translucency or near-transparency, and fragility of an eggshell.
• eggshell (Adjective) Very matt, having a low reflexivity, like an eggshell.
• eggstraordinary (Adjective) Extraordinary, when referring to eggs or Easter.
• eggstravaganza (Noun) An extravaganza involving eggs.
• eggwich (Noun) A sandwich with an egg filling or egg patty.
• eggy (Adjective) Resembling eggs in some way.
• friar's omelette (Noun) A dish of beaten eggs fried with apples and breadcrumbs.
• fried egg (Noun) A golf ball half-buried in sand in a bunker.
• frittata (Noun) A crustless quiche: a molded omelette in which vegetables, cheese, etc., are mixed into the eggs and cooked together.
• glair (Noun) Egg white, especially as used in various industrial preparations.
• good egg (Noun) A good person, someone to be trusted; a friend.
• guggy egg (Noun) A dish for a young child consisting of a soft-to-medium boiled egg with butter, salt, and pepper, served mashed in a cup.
• hard-boiled (Adjective) Cooked to a solid consistency. (of a boiled egg)
• hard-boiled (Adjective) Callous and unsentimental. (of a person, especially a detective)
• hard-boiled (Adjective) Written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect.
• hatch (Verb) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
• hatch (Noun) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
• jarp (Noun) The act of knocking one's pace egg (“a coloured hard-boiled egg traditionally made at Easter”) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact, an Easter custom in many countries.
• kenning (Noun) The range or extent of vision, especially at sea; (by extension) a marine measure of approximately twenty miles.
• kenning (Noun) A chalaza or tread of an egg (a spiral band attaching the yolk of the egg to the eggshell); a cicatricula.
• kenning (Noun) A metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.
• kenning (Noun) A dry measure equivalent to half a bushel; a container with that capacity.
• omelette (Noun) A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.
• omelette Arnold Bennett (Noun) An omelette containing smoked haddock and parmesan cheese.
• onsen tamago (Noun) A hard-boiled egg slow-cooked in the waters of an onsen.
• oologist (Noun) a person who studies or specializes in oology
• oology (Noun) The study of birds' eggs.
• oology (Noun) The hobby or practice of collecting birds' eggs, especially those of wild birds.
• over easy (Prepositional phrase) Of an egg prepared as food, fried on one side until most of the whites have cooked, then lightly fried on the other to finish cooking the whites, leaving the yolk unbroken and slightly soft (runny).
• over hard (Prepositional phrase) Of an egg prepared as food, fried on both sides all the way through, with the yolk intact.
• over light (Prepositional phrase) Synonym of over easy
• over medium (Prepositional phrase) Of an egg prepared as food, fried on both sides so as the whites are cooked, and the yolks are soft, but not runny.
• over well (Prepositional phrase) Synonym of over hard
• ovulate (Verb) To produce eggs or ova.
• pace egg (Noun) A hard-boiled coloured egg traditionally made at Easter, often given to relatives and friends as a token of goodwill. It was traditional to jarp with the eggs before eating them.
• paste egg (Noun) Alternative form of pace egg
• paste-egg (Noun) Alternative form of pace egg
• pickled egg (Noun) An egg, usually from a hen, that has been pickled in vinegar, giving the outside a brown colour.
• pisanka (Noun) A dyed or decorated Easter egg.
• poached egg (Noun) An egg that has been cooked by gently breaking it into simmering or very hot water.
• pysanka (Noun) A hand-decorated Ukrainian Easter egg with intricate designs.
• roe (Noun) The sperm of certain fish.
• scrambled egg (Noun) A dish made by beating and cooking eggs, sometimes mixed with milk, and typically stirred while cooking.
• shakshuka (Noun) A Maghrebi dish of eggs simmered in a mixture of chopped tomatoes, chilies, cumin, peppers, and onions.
• son-in-law egg (Noun) A boiled egg that has been shelled and then deep-fried.
• sunny side down (Adverb) Synonym of over easy
• sunny side up (Adverb) Of an egg: fried on one side, served with the unbroken relatively soft yolk on the top.
• sunny side up (Adverb) Born with one's head facing upward, as opposed to the normal downward-facing birth.
• sunny side up (Adjective) Of an egg: fried sunny side up.
• thousand-year egg (Noun) A century egg (Chinese egg dish).
• thousand-year-old egg (Noun) A century egg (Chinese egg dish).
• tortilla (Noun) Spanish omelette; an omelette containing potatoes and onions.
• yolk (Noun) The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.
• yolk (Noun) The grease in a sheep's fleece; lanolin.
• yolk (Verb) To produce yolk.

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