Usually means: Reproductive cell of birds, reptiles.
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We found 62 dictionaries that define the word egg:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. egg: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. egg, egg: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. egg, egg: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. egg: Collins English Dictionary
  5. egg: Vocabulary.com
  6. Egg, egg: Wordnik
  7. egg: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Egg: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Egg, egg: Wiktionary
  10. egg: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. egg: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. egg: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. egg: Dictionary.com
  14. egg (n.), egg (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. egg: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. .EGG, EGG (file format), EGG, Egg (Switzerland), Egg (album), Egg (band), Egg (biology), Egg (bird), Egg (car), Egg (chair), Egg (disambiguation), Egg (film), Egg (food), Egg (hieroglyph), Egg (magazine), Egg (video game), Egg, The Egg (album), The Egg (band), The Egg (building), The Egg (film), The Egg (short story), The Egg (theatre), The Egg, The egg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Egg: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. egg: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. egg: Rhymezone
  20. egg: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. egg: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. EGG: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. egg: Free Dictionary
  24. egg: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. egg: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. egg: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  3. Egg: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Egg (biology), Egg (disambiguation), Egg (geometry), egg: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Egg: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  4. Egg (human): Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Egg (disambiguation), egg: Medical dictionary
  10. Egg: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Egg: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. EGG: Acronym Finder
  3. EGG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. egg: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Egg: Easton Bible

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Egg: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Egg: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. egg: Natural History Terms

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Egg (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. egg, egg, egg, egg, egg, egg, egg, egg: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. egg (and spoon): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Egg: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. E.G.G, E.G.G, The Egg, egg: Urban Dictionary
  6. Egg: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Egg: Body Building

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Egg: Glossary of Insulator Terms

(Note: See egged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, zoology)
noun:  An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
noun:  (specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
noun:  (by extension, countable) A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
noun:  (also cytology) Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
noun:  (countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
noun:  A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
noun:  (architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
noun:  (chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
noun:  (military, dated) A bomb or mine.
noun:  (countable, figuratively)
noun:  Senses relating to people.
noun:  (informal, dated) A person; a fellow.
noun:  (derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
noun:  (Internet slang, derogatory, dated) A user of the microblogging service Twitter identified by the default avatar (historically an image of an egg (sense 1.1.1)) rather than a custom image; hence, a newbie or noob.
noun:  (transgender slang) A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning.
noun:  (transgender slang, by extension) One's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
noun:  (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
noun:  (derogatory, obsolete) A young person.
noun:  (archaic) Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.
noun:  (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
verb:  To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
verb:  (cooking) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
verb:  (England, vulgar, dialectal) To conceive a child, especially recklessly.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (automotive, informal) A Koenigsegg car.
noun:  Initialism of electroglottography. [The use of the electroglottograph.]

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