egg shell
Hatchling's first barrier
The hard, brittle outer covering of an egg, composed mainly of calcium carbonate.
Eggshells are fragile and break easily, giving rise to figurative uses: to walk on eggshells is to act with extreme caution to avoid upsetting someone.
Eggshell as an adjective describes a pale off-white color or a paint finish with slight sheen.
Also spelled as two words: egg shell.
- crackedHaving surface fractures
- fragileEasily broken or damaged
- calciumElement twenty, builds bones
- membraneThin tissue sheet
- speckledDotted with small marks
thin · brittle · hatch · nest · white · fragment · delicate · protective · pale · smooth · breakable · over easy · chick · incubate · texture · matte · powder · crushed
- shellsseashells, clam, oyster, mussel, scallop
- peelablesbanana peel, orange peel, apple skin, onion skin, lemon zest
- trace fossilstrace fossils, trackway, trackways, burrows, burrow
- fossilsdinosaur bones, ammonite, amber, ammonites, fossils
- bird anatomybeak, feathers, wings, tail feathers, wing feathers
protective covering thickness/strength
egg shellarmor plating
Defensive metal cladding
thick hide · tortoise shell · armadillo shell · rhinoceros hide