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egg-bound
adjective
- describing egg-bearing animals and birds that have difficulty passing their eggs
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Example Sentences
Her eye for physical detail is surprising, gimlet: two brown eggs “one fair like milk tea, the other dark and a bit orange”; the way children move and pout and swoon around animals; an egg-bound hen “with a great wag in her posterior.”
From New York Times
This is not the first evidence of such prenatal communication in birds; egg-bound embryos in some species, for example, can learn particular calls from their parents.
From BBC
Young hens are often affected by becoming egg-bound; that is; they are unable to force the passage of the egg from the ovary to the nest.
From Project Gutenberg
If she is egg-bound, the egg can be felt.
From Project Gutenberg
Egg-bound.—Probably an inland word; but it was only from one of the beach I heard it.
From Project Gutenberg
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