egg yolk
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Also see: yolk
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Also see: yolk
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
egg1
▶noun
- 1 an oval or round object laid by a female bird, reptile, fish, or invertebrate and containing an ovum which if fertilized can develop into a new organism.
■ an infertile egg, typically of the domestic hen, used for food.
- 2 Biology the female reproductive cell in animals and plants; an ovum.
- 3 informal, dated a person of a specified kind: he's a thoroughly bad egg.
- 4 Architecture a decorative oval moulding, used alternately with triangular figures.
– phrases
kill the goose that lays the golden eggs destroy a reliable and valuable source of income. [with allusion to one of Aesop's fables.]
with egg on one's face informal appearing foolish or ridiculous.
kill the goose that lays the golden eggs destroy a reliable and valuable source of income. [with allusion to one of Aesop's fables.]
with egg on one's face informal appearing foolish or ridiculous.
– derivatives
eggless adjective,
eggy adjective .
eggless adjective,
eggy adjective .
– origin ME (superseding earlier ey, from OE ǣg): from ON.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
egg2
▶verb (egg someone on) urge or encourage someone to do something foolish or risky.
– origin ME: from ON eggja ‘incite’.
'egg yolk' also found in these Oxford entries:
biotin
- duchesse potatoes
- lecithin
- lutein
- polonaise
- retinol
- tempera
- tocopherol
- vitellin

