an oval object with a shell, as produced by a bird
seed, cell; embryo of an animal
Cases of word usage
1) the noise made by a hen after laying an egg (cackle)
2) a fully development embryo in the womb or in an egg (foetus)
3) a mixture of sugar, white of egg etc used for covering cake(s); the formation of ice, e.g. on the wings of an aircraft (icing)
4) an insect in the first stage of its development after coming out of the egg (larva)
5) (a cake of) whites of egg mixed with sugar and baked (meringue)
6) an egg of a louse etc (e.g. as found in the human hair) (nit)
7) (a shape or outline that is) like an egg or ellipse (oval)
8) a form of a frog or toad between the time it leaves the egg to the time when it takes its adult form (tadpole)
9) of the colour of fresh snow or common salt; a colourless part, e.g. round the yolk of an egg (white)
10) the yellow part of an egg (yolk)