noun
1 of birds/as food
ADJECTIVE
▪ fresh
▪ bad , rotten
▪ free-range , organic
▪ chicken , duck , hen's , quail's , etc.
▪ unhatched
▪ boiled , devilled/deviled , fried , hard-boiled , poached , scrambled , soft-boiled
▪ raw
▪ beaten
▪ Scotch ( BrE )
▪ chocolate , Easter
… OF EGGS
▪ clutch
▪
She lays a clutch of four ~s on average.
▪ box ( BrE ), carton ( AmE )
VERB + EGG
▪ lay , produce
▪ deposit (of insects, reptiles, etc.)
▪
The beetles deposit their ~s in fields.
▪ hatch
▪ incubate
▪ emerge from , hatch from
▪ guard , protect
▪
The males stay and guard the ~s.
▪ bury
▪
Many reptiles bury their ~s.
▪ collect
▪ boil , cook , fry , poach , scramble
▪ break , crack
▪
Crack two ~s into the mixture.
▪ separate
▪
Separate the ~s, putting the whites to one side.
▪ beat , whisk
▪ brush sth with
▪
Brush the pastry with a little beaten ~.
EGG + VERB
▪ hatch
▪ break , crack
EGG + NOUN
▪ shell (usually eggshell )
▪ white , yolk
▪ box ( BrE ), carton ( AmE )
▪ laying , production
▪ cup
▪ mayonnaise , noodles , pasta , roll (= a type of Chinese food consisting of a thin tube of pastry filled with vegetables and/or meat and fried) ( AmE ), salad , sandwich
▪ wash
▪
Brush the dough with ~ wash.
▪ timer
▪ beater ( esp. AmE ) ( whisk in BrE )
▪ hunt
▪
We're just decorating eggs for the ~ hunt.
PHRASES
▪ the white of an ~ , the yolk of an ~
▪ bacon and ~s , ham and ~s
▪
a breakfast of bacon and ~s
2 cell from which a new young creature is formed
ADJECTIVE
▪ fertilized
▪ unfertilized
▪ donor
▪
Many women conceive through the use of a donor ~.
VERB + EGG
▪ fertilize
▪
Only one sperm fertilizes an ~.
▪ produce , release
▪ donate
EGG + NOUN
▪ donor
▪ donation
▪ removal
▪ formation
▪ cell
▪ sac
PHRASES
▪ the nucleus of an ~