"tea egg" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tea eggs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tea egg (plural tea eggs)
  1. An Asian snack consisting of a boiled egg that is cracked and then boiled again in tea. Categories (topical): Foods Synonyms: marble egg Translations (tea-soaked egg): 茶葉蛋 (Chinese Mandarin), 茶叶蛋 (cháyèdàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 茶雞蛋 (english: chiefly mainland) (Chinese Mandarin), 茶鸡蛋 (chájīdàn) (Chinese Mandarin), teemuna (Finnish), œuf au thé [masculine] (French), telur pindang (Indonesian), 차예단 (chayedan) (Korean)
    Sense id: en-tea_egg-en-noun-klsxFate Disambiguation of Foods: 63 37 Disambiguation of 'tea-soaked egg': 100 0
  2. Synonym of tea ball Synonyms: tea ball [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-tea_egg-en-noun-h4o9j4~1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for tea egg meaning in English (2.1kB)

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