egg-bag

I know it ain't goin 'tuh be nothin' after you git it told but hurry up and say it so yo 'egg-bag kin rest easy.

De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Zora Neale Hurston

The female loses legs and feelers, and never acquires wings, becoming little more than a sluggish egg-bag (fig. 7 _e_).

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

The myrmeleon seized the egg-bag and tore it away from the spider.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

Thus the spider whose egg-bag I had taken away ran here and there and everywhere in search of it, seemingly totally oblivious of my presence.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

Has paid cook and washer-woman out of smokehouse this year, and sold to other parties, and yet, like Wyman's egg-bag, there is no end to its supply -- that is, the end is never reached before a new supply is on hand.

Useful Information Concerning Yellow Tobacco, and Other Crops, as told by Fifty of the Most Successful Farmers of Granville County, N. C. J. B. Hunter 1880

During autumn, the female spider bears about with her the egg-bag of yellow or whitish silk, in which the little spiders are hatched.

Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873

As we see, the egg-bag of the Epeirae, particularly that of the Banded

The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

On the other hand, in the late autumn, the full-grown Spiders, feeling laying-time at hand, are driven to practise economy, in view of the great expenditure of silk required for the egg-bag.

The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The egg-bag, as we learnt in Chapter II., is a short cylinder rounded at the bottom.

The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

When carrying her egg-bag, the Spider reverses the posture: the front is in the pit, the rear outside.

The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869