eggshell
鸡蛋壳,蛋壳,卵壳,鸡肉
Definitions
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- : the shell of a bird's egg, consisting of keratin fibers and calcite crystals.
- : a pale yellowish-white color.
- : rather bulky paper having a slightly rough finish.
- 1
- : like an eggshell, as in thinness and delicacy; very brittle; fragile.
- : being pale yellowish-white in color.
- : having little or no gloss: eggshell white paint.
Examples
The inside of eggshells can be contaminated with salmonella bacteria, which causes a potentially serious foodborne illness.
Though you’re not supposed to include food waste like apple cores and eggshells in there.
Among other aspects, the court considered the wording too vague — had the eggshell read “To Mag, everything I possess,” the outcome might have been different.
The FoodCycler can hold a substantial amount of food, even crush chicken bones and eggshells, and dramatically cut down the volume of your food waste.
Nor did they know why tiny structures within eggshells are so different across the three main types of dinosaurs.
Is not my anger terrible as I dash your argosy, your thunder-bearing frigate, into fragments, as you would crack an eggshell?
This water is so holy that everything placed in the spring becomes as white as the film, within an eggshell.
Apparently the safety-bolt was missing from all of them, making them when loaded as brittle as an eggshell.
She paused a moment, lifting one of the silver spoons to break the end of her eggshell.
This is very different to the hard, calcareous eggshell of birds.