Synonyms and antonyms of Eggs and laying eggs in British Thesaurus

broody (adjective)

wanting to lay eggs or sit on them

clutch (noun)

a set of eggs that a chicken produces at one time, or the chickens that come from those eggs

egg (noun)

the round object with a shell that a female bird produces and a baby bird develops in. The mother bird lays an egg, and later the egg hatches and the baby bird comes out

egg (noun)

a small object produced by a female insect, frog, snake etc, that a young animal comes out of

eggshell (noun)

the hard outside layer of an egg

frogspawn (noun)

a mass of frog’s eggs

incubate (verb)

biology if a bird incubates its eggs, or if they incubate, it keeps them warm until the young birds inside come out

incubation period (noun)

biology the amount of time that it takes for eggs or cells to develop

lay (verb)

if a female animal such as a bird or fish lays an egg, it produces the egg by pushing it from its body

new-laid (adjective)

a new-laid egg has just come out of a female bird’s body

spawn (noun)

the eggs of a frog or fish protected by a transparent layer