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OEUF CLAIR [2 records]

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Record 1 2018-02-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Egg Industry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oeufs (Industrie de l'alimentation)

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Embryology
DEF

An unimpregnated, addled or imperfect egg, especially [one] with a soft noncalcareous shell.

OBS

wind: [This term stems] from the former belief that such eggs were the result of conception by the wind.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Embryologie

Spanish

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