egg tooth

English

Alternative forms

eggtooth
egg-tooth

Noun

egg tooth (plural egg teeth)

(zoology) A small, sharp, cranial protuberance used by offspring to break or tear through the egg's surface during hatching.

Translations

egg tooth

Belarusian: яйцавы́ зуб m (jajcavý zub)
Catalan: telolècit m
Danish: ægtand c
Dutch: eitand m
Esperanto: ovodento
Estonian: munahammas
Finnish: munahammas (fi)
French: diamant (fr) m, dent de délivrance f
German: Eizahn m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: eggtann m or f

Nynorsk: eggtann f
Polish: ząb jajowy m
Portuguese: dente de ovo m
Russian: яйцево́й зуб m (jajcevój zub)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: јајни зуб m

Roman: jajni zub m
Swedish: äggtand c
Ukrainian: яйце́вий горбо́к m (jajcévyj horbók), яйце́вий зуб m (jajcévyj zub)
Vietnamese: răng trứng

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