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Egg

The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.

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Bombard 76% connected

A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.

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Coat 76% connected

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

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Gonad 76% connected

One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gl…

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Ovum 76% connected

A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells,…

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Pelt 76% connected

The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Nit 76% connected

The egg of a louse or other small insect.

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Roe 76% connected

A roebuck. See Roebuck.

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Spawn 76% connected

To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.

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Albumen 70% connected

The white of an egg.

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Chalaza 70% connected

The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.

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Eggshell 70% connected

The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.

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Epididymis 70% connected

An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.

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Ovalbumin 70% connected

Alt. of Ovalbumen

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Shell 70% connected

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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Vitellus 70% connected

The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum.

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White 70% connected

Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure sno…

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Yolk 70% connected

The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.

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Substance part 1

Protein 70% connected

A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name.

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Ball 92% connected

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

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Nut 92% connected

The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing…

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Orchis 92% connected

A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tub…

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Testicle 92% connected

One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.

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Testis 92% connected

A testicle.

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