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Egg

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The shelled food and brood of birds and other animals. Not world-egg as cosmogony alone, and not every named myth egg.

  • Egg is historically related to Chicken.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats hens’ eggs among ordinary animal foods and farm stock. A named egg beside chicken as the common laying bird, not world-egg as cosmogony.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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