eggshell
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- noun
- /ˈɛɡˌʃɛl/
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cáscara de huevo
- "I'll miss you, Douglas," she said, the eggshell cup leveled at her painted lips.
- thin eggshell
- fragile as an eggshell
- white eggshell
You've seen those diagrams where it's like Earth's crust and it's like this tiny little eggshell on top of a mantle that's off massive.
- You've seen those diagrams where it's like Earth's crust and it's like this tiny little eggshell on top of a mantle that's off massive.
- They just don't work the same as this one because of, again, remember this, this might sound like a like a, like a complex term, but fermented eggshell membrane.
Examples
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Andy was left staring at the little fragments of eggshell on the ground.
Fiction book (1997) -
I have some eggshell pants that might...
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White beige eggshell, Something to remember.
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What is the mechanism by which the eggshell is lost or reduced in thickness?
Academic text (1993) -
In each transparent eggshell was a baby octopus, as big as the head of a pin.
Fiction book (1997) -
Across the room, the trash can tumbled and the eggshells scattered over the floor.
Fiction book (1990) -
I also used to imitate Roman mosaics with eggshells when I was a child; I tell him so.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm getting damn tired of the eggshell off-white superplastic eternal finish on the walls of this office.
Fiction book (1993) -
The internees were even modifying the soil with eggshells to make the high desert more fertile.
Academic text (2011) -
The fragile eggshell cracked when it was accidentally dropped on the floor.
Synonyms
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A hard outer covering that protects animals, eggs, or nuts
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Eggshell is simply made from the two words egg and shell, meaning 'egg' and 'a hard outside'. Like a nut or a turtle, the shell protects what is inside, so an eggshell is the thin, hard outer covering of an egg.