ostrich egg

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• ostrich egg — egg laid by an ostrich …   English contemporary dictionary

• Ostrich — For other uses, see Ostrich (disambiguation). Ostrich Temporal range: pleistocene–present …   Wikipedia

• Egg (biology) — Bird eggs and others (click on image for key) …   Wikipedia

• Egg (food) — Chicken egg redirects here. For the causality dilemma, see Chicken or the egg. On the left a chicken egg, the egg most commonly e …   Wikipedia

• egg — egg1 W2S1 [eg] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(bird)¦ 2¦(food)¦ 3¦(egg shape)¦ 4¦(animals/people)¦ 5 (have) egg on your face 6 put all your eggs in one basket 7 lay an egg 8 good egg ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1300 1400; : Old Nors] …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• egg — I UK [eɡ] / US noun Word forms egg : singular egg plural eggs *** 1) a) [countable] the round object with a shell that a female bird produces and a baby bird develops in. The mother bird lays an egg, and later the egg hatches and the baby bird… …   English dictionary

• egg — egg1 [ eg ] noun *** 1. ) count the round object with a shell that a female bird produces and a baby bird develops in. The mother bird lays an egg, and later the egg hatches and the baby bird comes out: a hen s/pigeon s/sparrow s egg an ostrich… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• egg — 1 /eg/ noun 1 BIRDS (C) a round object with a hard surface, that contains a baby bird, snake, insect etc and which is made by a female bird, snake, or insect: Blackbirds usually lay their eggs in March. | an ostrich egg 2 FOOD (C, U) an egg,… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Egg decorating — Ukrainian Easter eggs This article is about egg decorating in general. For the Easter tradition of egg decorating, see Easter egg. Egg decorating is the art or craft of decorating eggs. It is quite a popular art/craft form because of the… …   Wikipedia

• ostrich — ostrichlike, adj. /aw strich, os trich/, n. 1. a large, two toed, swift footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds. 2. (not used scientifically) a rhea. 3.… …   Universalium

• Egg —    (Heb. beytsah, whiteness ). Eggs deserted (Isa. 10:14), of a bird (Deut. 22:6), an ostrich (Job 39:14), the cockatrice (Isa. 59:5). In Luke 11:12, an egg is contrasted with a scorpion, which is said to be very like an egg in its appearance, so …   Easton's Bible Dictionary