Egg

Egg can mean different things:

• Egg (biology)
  • Ovum, the female reproductive cell
    • Zygote, a fertilised ovum
  • Cleidoic egg: the type of egg produced by amniotes (reptiles, birds, mammals)
• Egg (food): a type of egg that can be eaten.

Egg Media

• 

  "ŒUFS" (Eggs), illustration by Adolphe Millot from Nouveau Larousse Illustré [1897-1904]. See key below for details.

• 

  Diagram of a chicken egg in its 9th day. Membranes: allantois, chorion, amnion, and vitellus/ yolk.

• 

  Six commercial eggs — view from the top against a white background

• 

  Salmon fry hatching. The larva has grown around the remains of the yolk and the remains of the soft, transparent egg are discarded.

• 

  Moor frog eggs utilize glycans to form a hydrophilic jelly coat that protects the egg

• 

  Eggs of Common murre. Collection of Jacques Perrin de Brichambaut.

• 

  the volume and form of an egg

• 

  Turtle eggs in a nest dug by a female common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)

• 

  Editing Image-Acanthodoris lutea laying eggs 2

• 

  Microlecithal eggs from the roundworm Toxocara