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  • noun Plural form of egg.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of egg.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food

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Examples

  • Despite FDA inspections that found US hatcheries injecting antibiotics directly into eggs* and studies that detect antibiotic residue in egg yolks of treated chickens even after withdrawal periods and cooking, + antibiotics are not "a food safety issue for eggs" said Blair Van Zetten, on Behalf of United Egg Producers at the hearings.

    Got Antibiotics in Your Food? Thank the FDA 2009

  • I was totally horrified by the teatime set they served – soft-boiled eggs with eggshell fragments, soy sauce bottles with caps that fall off when you try to flavour your eggs…

    babycartercl Diary Entry babycartercl 2008

  • Despite FDA inspections that found US hatcheries injecting antibiotics directly into eggs* and studies that detect antibiotic residue in egg yolks of treated chickens even after withdrawal periods and cooking, + antibiotics are not "a food safety issue for eggs" said Blair Van Zetten, on Behalf of United Egg Producers at the hearings.

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • Gathering and selling the eggs is also prohibited.

    A Guide to Mexican Fish and Shellfish - Part Two: Las Delicias del Mar 2006

  • Gathering and selling the eggs is also prohibited.

    A Guide to Mexican Fish and Shellfish - Part Two: Las Delicias del Mar 2006

  • Gathering and selling the eggs is also prohibited.

    A Guide to Mexican Fish and Shellfish - Part Two: Las Delicias del Mar 2006

  • The number of birds required to produce the eggs is astounding.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • The number of birds required to produce the eggs is astounding.

    Medpundit 2005

  • For example, the consumption of eggs, which is nearly a perfect food-there are more vitamins in eggs than in any other one food-in Canada is 284 eggs per year per head, in Germany it is only 129 and in Italy, 119.

    Australia and the Empire 1938

  • Supper consisted of chicory served with the water it had been boiled in, to which was added some oil; there was also bread and wine, then chicken and afterwards poached eggs which they call eggs in their shirtsleeves.

    Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

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