Egg may mean: ovum (egg or egg cell), the female sex cell in animals and plants. egg (biology), the ovum of animals together with protective layers and nutrients for the developing embryo Egg (food) Egg, Switzerland, a city Egg (band), an English progressive rock band Eggs (film) (1995), by Norwegian director Bent Hamer Augustus Egg, a Victorian artist Egg Pictures, a movie production company owned by Jodie Foster Egg Plc, an online bank ...

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egg - a female sex cell or gamete with the haploid number of chromosomes. It may be fertilized by a sperm cell to produce a zygote with the diploid number of chromosomes for that particular species. The eggs of some species may develop into multicellular individuals without being fertilized by a sperm cell. This is the process of parthenogenesis

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Egg biology - Yolk in fish. ...

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Egg biology, Egg biology - Bird eggs, Egg biology - Colors, Egg biology - Shell structure, Egg biology - Shape, Egg biology - Predation, Egg biology - Fish eggs, Egg biology - Yolk in fish

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Eggs are green, and very small, about 1 mm in diameter. They are carried by the female on the underside of the tail for a period of about one month, whereupon they are released over several days and hatch. The number of eggs carried by a single female can range well into the tens of thousands, but the survival rate is very low, speculated at around 0.1 percent. Older females produce vastly more eggs than younger ones. In one observation (Francis Herrick, in the 1890s) 5-inch (13 cm) females were found to have about 4,000 eggs, while 10 inch ...

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The primary purpose of an egg yolk is to serve as the food source for the developing embryo inside the egg. The yolk is the nucleus of the egg, which until fertilization is a single cell. It sits in the center of the egg close to the embryo. The yolk contains all of the fat in the egg and almost half of the protein. It is surrounded by the egg white (known as albumen or ovalbumin). It is sometimes separated from the egg white and used in cooking (for custard, holl ...

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Augustus Leopold Egg (May 21, 1816 - March 26, 1863) was a Victorian artist best known for his modern triptych Past and Present (1858), which depicts the break up of a middle-class Victorian family. Egg was a member of The Clique, a group of artists founded by Richard Dadd and others in the 1840s. Egg sought to combine popularity with moral and social activism, in line with the literary work of his friend Dickens. With Dickens he set up the "Guild of Literature and Art", a philanthropic organisation intended to provide w ...

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A world egg or cosmic egg is a mythological motif found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations. Typically, the world egg is a beginning of some sort, and the universe or some primordial being comes into existence by "hatching" from the egg. World egg - Chinese mythology. In the myth of Pangu, developed by Taoist monks hundreds of years after Lao Zi, the universe began as an egg. A god named Pangu, born inside the egg, broke it into two halves: the upper half became the sky, while th ...

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• World egg - Chinese mythology
• World egg - Egyptian mythology
• World egg - Finnish mythology

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The egg white is the common name for the clear liquid (also called albumen or ovalbumin) contained within an egg. It is the cytoplasm of the egg, which until fertilization is a single cell. It consists mainly of about 10% proteins dissolved in water. Its primary purpose is to protect the egg yolk and also to provide additional nutrition for the growth of the embryo, as it is rich in proteins and is of high nutritional value. Unlike the egg yolk, it contains little fat. It is often separated and used for cook ...

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• Egg white - Composition
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• Egg white - Cooking and preparation of egg whites
• Egg white - What happens to an egg white as it is beaten

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In physical cosmology, the cosmic egg is a cosmological concept developed in the 1930s and explored by theoreticians during the following two decades. The idea comes from a perceived need to reconcile Edwin Hubble's observation of an expanding universe (which is also predicted by Einstein's equations of general relativity) with the notion that the universe must be eternally old. The theory maintains that many billions of years ago, the entire mass of the universe was compressed into a volume about thirty times the size of our s ...

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• Cosmic egg - Influences on science fiction

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The expression, "a curate's egg" means something that is partly good and partly bad and as a result is not wholly satisfactory, but also not completely unsatisfactory either. An example in conversational use would be, "How was your holiday?" "Somewhat of a curate's egg I'm afraid, the hotel was lovely, but it rained a lot." The phrase first appeared in a cartoon in the humorous British magazine Punch on 9 November 1895. Drawn by George du Maurier and entitled "True Humility", it featured a timid loo ...

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The Creme Egg is a brand of chocolate egg produced by Cadbury-Schweppes. The egg has a chocolate "shell", with white and yellow cream inside. Creme Eggs are usually sold individually or in packets of three, six, twelve, and boxes of fifteen and twenty four. They are produced all year long, but are sold in the period between Christmas and Easter. The mascot is the Creme Egg Chick, who appears on the foil wrapping of ...

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• Cadbury's Creme Egg - Varieties

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Oology is the branch of zoology that deals with the study of eggs, especially birds' eggs. It can also be applied to the hobby of collecting wild birds' eggs (which is now illegal in many jurisdictions). Oology includes the study of the breeding habits of birds, and the study of their nests. (The study of birds' nests is sometimes called caliology). Birds' eggs are conveniently classified as marked or unmarked, according to the ground color. Birds which lay their eggs in holes in trees or in the ground almost always have white, ...

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An omelette or omelet is a preparation of beaten egg cooked with butter or oil in a frying pan, often folded around a filling. Many variations exist. Spanish tortilla de patatas (European Spanish for "potato omelette") is a characteristic thick omelette stuffed with fried potatoes and fine cut onion, and fried using olive oil. See also tortilla. A Western omelette is an omelette filled with diced ham, onions, and green bell peppers. Often served in the midwestern United States and ...

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Custard is a family of preparations based on milk and eggs, thickened with heat. Most commonly, it refers to a dessert or dessert sauce, but custard bases are also used for quiches and other savoury foods. As a dessert, it is made from a combination of milk or cream, egg yolks, sugar, and flavourings such as vanilla. Sometimes flour, corn starch, or gelatin are also added. In French cookery, custard—confusingly called just crème—is never thickened i ...

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Egg One of the most comprehensive symbols, equally suggestive in a spiritual, physiological, and cosmological sense. Among other things, it stands for primordial chaos, the universal matrix, the great Deep, the Virgin Mother, and also for the kosmos or world egg produced from it. As chaos or space, it is the virgin egg, unproduced; this is fructified by the spiritual ray, and from it then issues the Third Logos.

"The Virgin-egg being in one sense abstract Egg-ness, or the power of becoming developed through fecundation, is eternal and for ever the same. And just as the fecundation of an egg takes place before it is dropped; so the non-eternal periodical germ which becomes later in symbolism the mundane egg, contains in itself, when it emerges from the said symbol, 'the promise and potency' of all the Universe . . . The simile of an egg also expresses the fact . . . that the primordial form of everything manifested, from atom to globe, from man to angel, is spheroidal, the sphere having been with all nations the emblem of eternity and infinity" (SD 1:64-5).

As the symbol of generation, birth, and rebirth, it is "the most familiar form of that in which is deposited and developed the germ of every living being" (IU 1:157), used not only on account of the mystery of apparent self-generation, but from its spheroidal shape, the sphere and circle both being symbols of encompassing space.

The egg symbol appears in many cultures. In the Laws of Manu, for instance, it is stated that the Self-existent Lord, becoming manifest, created water alone; in that he cast seed which became a golden egg (hiranyagarbha); having dwelt in that egg for a divine year, Brahma splits it, forming heaven and earth. Brahma thus both fructifies the egg and is produced from it. Again, the female evolver or emanator is first a germ, a drop of heavenly dew, a pearl, and then an egg; the egg gives birth to the four elements with the fifth (akasa); it splits, the shell being heaven, the meat earth, and the white the waters of both space and earth. Vishnu, too, emerges from the egg. In Egypt, Osiris is born from an egg, like Brahma; the egg was sacred to Isis and therefore the priests never ate eggs.

The egg is used in Easter celebrations as the symbol of the renewal of life. The Easter egg derives from the pagan custom of exchanging eggs at the birth-time of the year. Originally it had a deep esoteric hint completely lost sight of today where the custom is still held in the Occident, although commonly candies in the shape of eggs are exchanged. Giving a fellow disciple an egg in the old Mystery schools suggested the rebirth of nature, so apparent in the springtime, or again the initiation ceremonies that prevailed at the spring equinox, thereby expressing the hope that he too might at some time be "reborn," able to free his spiritual nature from the enveloping shell as a chick frees itself from the egg.

Sometimes the word is used for the circle or zero, for the egg combines the senses of fertility and sphericity in one symbol. The egg with its central germ is the circle with the point. In company with the stroke for the masculine power in nature -- sometimes represented as a vertical line -- it makes the number 10, or the figure of relatively perfected or complete emanation. The egg was the symbol of life in immortality and eternity, and also the glyph of the generative matrix. The anatomy of a hen's egg shows a wonderful analogy with the stages in comic evolution and the human principles.

See also BRAHMANDA; WORLD EGG

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Eggs (Easter). Eggs were symbolical from an early time. There was the "Mundane Egg", in which Brahma gestated, with the Hindus the Hiranya-Gharba, and the Mundane Egg of the Egyptians, which proceeds from the mouth of the "unmade and eternal deity", Kneph, and which is the emblem of generative power.

Then the Egg of Babylon, which hatched Ishtar, and was said to have fallen from heaven into the Euphrates. Therefore coloured eggs were used yearly during spring in almost every country, and in Egypt were exchanged as sacred symbols in the spring-time, which was, is, and ever will be, the emblem of birth or rebirth, cosmic and human, celestial and terrestrial.

They were hung up in Egyptian temples and are so suspended to this day in Mahometan mosques.

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The shape of an egg is approximately an oblate ellipsoid, but, while keeping cylindrical symmetry, there is typically not quite symmetry in a plane perpendicular to the long axis. See also oval (geometry). Egg food - Shell color. Different breeds of chicken can lay eggs with shells varying from whites through to brown and rarer colours such as speckled green. Although there are absolutely no nutritional differences, there is often a cultural preference for one colour over another. For example, in most regi ...

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In the video game Sonic Heroes, the Egg Fleet was a formidable fleet of flying ships resembling marine life. Designed initially by Doctor Eggman, the Egg Fleet was led by a massive flagship resembling a Whale Shark that may have been the Egg Carrier 3, though this is not known for certain. Throughout the course of the game, most of the Egg Fleet was destroyed, either during gameplay as Team Sonic, Team Dark, Team Rose or Team Chaotix, or in the final battle between Super Sonic and the Metal Overlord. At the least, the mothership's control deck was destroyed and used as the fusion platform for ...

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After fertilization, the bird egg is laid by the female and is incubated for a time that varies according to the species; then a single young hatches from each egg. Average clutch sizes range from 1 (as in condors) to about 17 (the Grey Partridge). Egg biology - Colors. Different animals produce different colored eggs. The pigments protoporphyrin, biliverdin, and zinc chelate of biliverdin, are responsible for the diversity of egg color in birds. These pigments are secreted by cells in the oviduct wall, and can cause speckles if color is added right before the egg is laid. T ...

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Egg biology, Egg biology - Bird eggs, Egg biology - Colors, Egg biology - Shell structure, Egg biology - Shape, Egg biology - Predation, Egg biology - Fish eggs, Egg biology - Yolk in fish

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The shape of an egg is approximately an oblate ellipsoid, but, while keeping cylindrical symmetry, there is typically not quite symmetry in a plane perpendicular to the long axis. See also oval (geometry). Egg food - Shell color. Different breeds of chicken can lay eggs with Egg shells varying from whites through to brown and rarer colours such as speckled green. Although there are absolutely no nutritional differences, there is often a cultural preference for one colour over another. For example, in most ...

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Egg food, Egg food - Nutrition of chicken eggs, Egg food - Health issues of eating chicken eggs, Egg food - Cholesterol and fat, Egg food - Contamination, Egg food - Cooking and preparation, Egg food - Egg substitutes for baking, Egg food - Egg characteristics, Egg food - Shell color, Egg food - Yolk color, Egg food - Abnormalities, Egg food - Ethical issues, Egg food - Trivia, Egg food - Pop culture, Egg food - Egg Attacks

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