Dictionary Entry
egg
egg is a 3-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.
- 2noun
A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.
- 3noun
Anything resembling an egg in form.
- 4transitive verb
To urge on; to instigate; to incite/
- 5noun
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
- 6noun
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
"she kicked him in the balls and got away"
- 7noun
oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
Synonyms
- 8verb
coat with beaten egg
"egg a schnitzel"
- 9verb
throw eggs at
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