Synonyms for egg
ɛgegg

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1. eggnoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   eggs, testis, testicle, nut, orchis, bollock, ball, ballock

2. egg, eggsnoun

   oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food

   Synonyms:
   eggs, testis, testicle, nut, orchis, bollock, ball, ballock

3. testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, eggverb

   one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

   "she kicked him in the balls and got away"

   Synonyms:
   screwball, lump, crank, clump, orb, glob, bullock block, junkie, bollock, testis, clod, globe, nut, musket ball, chunk, formal, junky, en, testicle, ball, orchis, eggs, fruitcake, nut case, crackpot, addict, ballock, freak

4. eggverb

   throw eggs at

5. eggverb

   coat with beaten egg

   "egg a schnitzel"

Matched Categories

1. • Coat
   • Cooking
   • Ovum
   • Pelt

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. eggnoun

   Synonyms:
   ovum

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1. eggnoun

   Synonyms:
   ovum, germ, cell, spawn

   Associated words:
   oölogy, oölogist, ovology, oviferous, yolk, glair, albumen, embryo, oviparous, oviposit, oviposition, vitellus, fecundate, impregnate, impregnation, fecundity, clutch, vitelline, oviduct, ovipara, ovulation, ovulist, tread, treadle, chalaza, addle, oömeter, oöscope, spawn

2. eggverb

   Synonyms:
   urge on, instigate, incite

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1. List of paraphrases for "egg":

   eggs, ovum, ovule, ova, bud

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. egg

   Synonyms:
   Female sex cell, female gamete, ovum

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1. Alasdair Haynes:

   The initial price was just incorrect, the people with egg on the face here are the advisers.

2. Patro Qhamakoane:

   Knowledge is like an egg, and revelation is the yoke of an egg, until the egg is cracked, and the albumen is spilled, the revelation of the knowledge remains unknown and produces no result.

3. The Kivitis:

   To be honest, when a straight couple is using surrogacy, or when a straight couple is using an egg donation or sperm donation, nobody asks them if they are the biological parents of the child, it's just an assumption. But when an LGBT family's coming and applying, our application was flagged as surrogacy. our position was and remains that we should be treated as a married couple and the minimal requirements that are in that regulation should be applied to us as well.

4. Samuel Butler:

   A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

5. Riyaz Patel:

   In my view the recommendation made by the authors to replace whole eggs with egg whites/substitutes is not supported by the entirety of evidence available.