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• curate's egg, like the —  Part good, part bad. Usu. good in parts, like the curate s egg …   A concise dictionary of English slang

• Egg of Columbus — Coordinates: 38°58′48″N 1°18′22″E / 38.979870°N 1.306033°E / 38.979870; 1.306033 …   Wikipedia

• egg — egg1 eggless, adj. eggy, adj. /eg/, n. 1. the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to… …   Universalium

• Egg (phasmatodea) — Phasmatodea, like a ghost , resembles twigs leaves and sometimes resembles lichen. The egg is oval with 5 parts making the egg , the capitulum small nob on end of egg, operculum the ring holding the capitulum and is in between the shell and the… …   Wikipedia

• egg — I [[t]ɛg[/t]] n. 1) dvl the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species 2) dvl… …   From formal English to slang

• Egg of Columbus (tangram puzzle) — The Egg of Columbus ( Ei Des Columbus in German) is a puzzle consisting of a flat egg like shape divided into 9 pieces by straight cuts. The goal of the puzzle is to rearrange the pieces so as to form other specific shapes, as in a tangram. The… …   Wikipedia

• egg dummy — an egg like spot, e.g. on the anal fin of mouthbrooding Cichlidae. The male cichlid displays these spots to a female who sucks at the spots assuming them to be real eggs; the male releases sperm that fertilise the eggs in the mouth of the female …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Egg case (Chondrichthyes) — Egg case of a skate. An egg case or egg capsule, colloquially known as a mermaid s purse or devil s purse, is a casing that surrounds the fertilized eggs of some sharks, skates, and chimaeras. They are among the common objects which are washed up …   Wikipedia

• Egg donation — Intervention MeSH D018587 Egg donation is the process by which a woman provides one or several (usually 10 15) eggs (ova, oocytes) for purposes of assisted reproduction or biomedical research. For assisted reproduction purposes, egg d …   Wikipedia

• Egg Bowl — Teams …   Wikipedia