egg

organic vessel in which an embryo first begins to develop
Thing developmental_stage_of_animal Q17147
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Summary

egg is a developmental stage of animal[1]. egg ranks in the top 8% of developmental stage of animal entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,309 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: class of living thing[3]
  • Subclass of: covering[4]
  • Has use: egg as food[5]
  • Commons category: Eggs[6]
  • Unicode character: 🥚[7]
  • Has part(s): yolk[8], chalaza[9], eggshell[10]
  • Found in taxon: Animalia[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Eggs[12]
  • Commons gallery: Egg[13]
  • Facet of: oviparity[14], ovoviviparity[15]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[16], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[17], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[22], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[23], Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[24], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[25], Small Soviet Encyclopedia[26], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[27]
  • Topic has template: Template:Eggs[28]
  • Different from: egg cell[29], bird egg[30]
  • Name: ꠄꠘ꠆ꠒꠣ[31]
  • Exact match: https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/turkforms.php?form=eggegg[32]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[33]

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Influence

Things named for egg include love egg[34].

Why It Matters

egg has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] egg is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for egg include love egg[34].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Q87326105. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Q87326105. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Q87326105. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Q87326105. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Q87326105. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Q87326105. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Q87326105. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 5449
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish encyclopedia id: 5449, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167477885|EGGS (#167477885)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #mix"
  2. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → eggs
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: eggs, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289928662|eggs (#289928662)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004798-vejce
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004798-vejce, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 21w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has parts → —
    Aliases → —
    Facet of → oviparity, ovoviviparity
    Topic's main category → Category:Eggs
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Has part(s): egg yolk, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect yolk → egg yolk ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/Q16336079_Q181409|"
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