egg tooth

English

Alternative forms

• eggtooth
• egg-tooth

Noun

egg tooth (plural egg teeth)

1. (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 (nl) 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