UMD small logo.   UMD
 Skip to the Contents  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Anthropology in the News

Tim Roufs' HomePage

Anthropology of Food

Moodle
ANTH 3888 su2012

ANTH 1604 su2012

ANTH 3888 On-line Course Calendars:
Summer 2012
Fall 2012

OWL logo, Online Writing Lab, Purdue University.


Eggs

(food)

 

 


Robin's nest.

Brown egg.

 

 



Eastern
Easter


Ukranian Easter egg.

Ukrainian Easter egg

Pysanka

see also:
chickens

Wikipedia:

Chicken
Egg (food)
Egg allergy
Egg decorating
Pysanka
Egging
Eggshell
Egg white
Egg yolk
Easter egg
List of egg dishes
List of egg topics
Ovo vegetarianism
animal welfare / animal rights
Battery cage
Fish eggs
Humpty Dumpty
Category:Eggs
Category:Eggs in culture
Wikimedia Commons—Category:Eggs in art
Wikimedia Commons—Category:People with chickens

egg
NOUN:  

1 a : the hard-shelled reproductive body produced by a bird and especially by the common domestic chicken; also : its contents used as food
b
: an animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum together with its nutritive and protective envelopes and having the capacity to develop into a new individual capable of independent existence
c : ovum
2 : something resembling an egg
3 : person, sort <a good egg>
egg·less adjective
eggy \ˈe-gē, ˈā-\ adjective
egg on one's face : a state of embarrassment or humiliation
egg·head : intellectual, highbrow

 

TRANSITIVE
VERB:
  1 : to cover with egg
2 : to pelt with eggs

Date: 1833

: to incite to action —usually used with on
— more at edge

Date: 13th century

ADJECTIVE:  

 

ETYMOLOGY:   Middle English egge, from Old Norse egg; akin to Old English ǣg egg, Latin ovum, Greek ōion

Date: 14th century

"egg." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2010.
Merriam-Webster Online. 02 April 2010
<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chicken>

In the news . . .

The shape of an egg is an ovate spheroid with one end larger than the other end. The egg has cylindrical symmetry along the long axis.

Wikipedia

Uovo, Tacuinum Sanitatis (a medieval handbook on wellness).

Uovo
Tacuinum Sanitatis
(a medieval handbook on wellness)

Wikipedia

Old woman selling eggs, Hendrick Bloemaert, (c. 1601, Utrecht – 1672).

Old woman selling eggs.
Hendrick Bloemaert
(c. 1601, Utrecht – 1672)

Wikipedia

Ostrich egg (right), compared to chicken egg (left)

Ostrich egg (right), compared to chicken egg (left)

Wikipedia

Henrietta cartoon
Moodle
ANTH 3888 su2012

ANTH 1604 su2012

/\
 to top of page / A-Z index

© 1998 - 2012 Timothy G. Roufs — All rights reserved
    Envelope: E-mail

Page URL: http:// www.d.umn.edu /cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afeggs.html
Last Modified Friday, 04-May-2012 12:56:41 CDT
Site Information / Disclaimers ~ Main A-Z Index
 

View Stats