Comprehensive
Dictionary Suite
Help
Help
Help
     
Lookup History
egg1
land
vertebrate

egg1

 
pronunciation:
eg
phrases:
put all one's eggs in one basket
features:
Word Combinations (noun), Word Builder, Word Explorer
part of speech: noun
definition 1: a reproductive cell within the female; ovum.
definition 2: the thin-shelled ovum of a bird or reptile, often used for food by humans and animals.
 
definition 3: anything having the shape of a hen's egg.
definition 4: (informal) person.
You're a good egg.
Word Combinations  About this feature
adjective + (n.)egg beaten, boiled, brown, chopped, cooked, cosmic, deviled, fertilized, fluffy, fresh, fried, golden, hard-boiled, large, medium, poached, powdered, raw, remaining, rotten, scrambled, smooth [See all][See only the most frequent]
verb + (n.)egg add, beat, boil, brush, chop, combine, cook, crack, deposit, dip, divide, donate, eat, fertilize, fold, fry, granulate, incubate, inject, lay, mix, poach, pour, scramble, stir, taste, whip, whisk  [See all][See only the most frequent]
(n.)egg + verb bake, blend, buttermilk, cup, hatch, peel, separate, sprinkle, toast, whites, yolk
noun + (n.)egg Help bacon, bean, bird, bowl, breakfast, butter, buttermilk, cheese, chicken, chocolate, cinnamon, clutch, crumb, dinosaur, dough, duck, female, fish, fly, fork, frog, goose, hen, ingredient, insect, juice, meat, minute, mixer, nest, onion, ovary, pepper, plate, potato, poultry, powder, protein, quail, salmon, salt, sperm, steak, sugar, turtle, vegetable [See all][See only the most frequent]
phrase: put all one's eggs in one basket
Word Builder: egg +
  • eggbeater:
    a tool for beating eggs.
  • eggshell:
    the shell of an egg.
  • egg white:
    the white part inside an egg.
  • egg yolk:
    the yellow part inside an egg.
Word Explorer
See
  amphibian, animal, arthropod, bird, cell, dinosaur, food, insect, mollusk, organ, reproduction, reptile, rodent, spider, worm