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(n)
(anatomy) A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.
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(anatomy) A testicle of a vertebrate.
(food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
(British, Ireland, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.
Alternative spelling of bollock. [(British, Ireland, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.]
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
(zoology or paraphilia) The process or instance of ovipositing, laying eggs.
(cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.
(cytology) A cell that develops into an egg or ovum; a female gametocyte.
In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
(cytology, also attributive) A eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes (“reproductive cells”) during a fertilization process.
(adj)
(embryology) Of or relating to an embryo.
A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.
(botany) The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments.
The process by which something spawns.
A hard external covering of an animal.
A surname.
(usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
Eggs of fish.
A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
A female chicken (Gallus gallus), especially a sexually mature one kept for her eggs.
The shell around an egg.
(countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
A chamber used for baking or heating.
A set of white clothes, especially as a uniform.
(countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
A light, gentle wind.
A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
(architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
(dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
(anime) Initialism of Original Video Animation, a direct-to-video anime.
(v)
(transitive) To call into action.
(colloquial) A man or boy; a fellow.
(theology) A violation of divine will or religious law.
(cytology) A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.
(countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
A jelly-like mass of eggs, laid by various creatures.
(transitive) To grip or grasp tightly.
Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.
(transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
The egg of a louse.
The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.
Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese) raised for food (meat, eggs, or both).
A crustless quiche: a molded omelette in which vegetables, cheese, etc., are mixed into the eggs and cooked together.
A place where eggs are deposited, produced, sold or kept.
(zoology) An embryonic insect which has twice cast its skin before hatching from the egg, such as some mites of Myobia
any food (especially cereal) usually served for breakfast
(archaic) A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.
The central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg, yellow when fresh.
(biology) cicatricula
(zoology) Producing yolk, or a yolk-like substance
(biology) A form of parthenogenesis in which females are produced from unfertilized eggs.
A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
A chicken raised for meat.
(archaic, biochemistry) A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.
A fossil egg.
(uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
A molded omelette made with the addition of fried potatoes and often onions.
The condition of being oviparous.
A cell, found in females, which merges with a sperm cell to form a zygote.
(biology) The parts of an ovary and testis (in Rotifera etc) that produce eggs and sperm respectively
(British, US, idiomatic) A good person, someone to be trusted; a friend.
(informal, chiefly in negative constructions) A person who is still young.
(archaic) A posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.
(historical) A 19th-cetury contrivance for hatching eggs by means of artificial heat.
An Easter treat in the shape of an egg (usually much smaller) made of chocolate, wrapped in festively decorated aluminum foil.
(uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat).
(Southern US, Midland US) A pie made with eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla, and cornmeal.
(botany, now rare) An ovule.
A plant of species Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber.
A young pig.
(anatomy) A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct.
A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.).
Any substance designed to kill eggs, especially the eggs of insects.
a domestic hen ready to brood
the production of eggs (especially in birds)
(colloquial) An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman.
A cheaper imitation of turtle soup, often made from brains and organ meats such as calf's head or calf's foot.
The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
The savory fruit of this plant, most often red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.