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cuckoo's egg

cuckoo's egg noun: anything harmful that is infiltrated into a place in order to develop and emerge there.

Noun

cuckoo's egg

  1. Anything harmful that is infiltrated into a place in order to develop and emerge there.

Origin of cuckoo's egg

In reference to the habit of the cuckoo of depositing its egg into another bird's nest to be incubated and fed.

Questions about cuckoo's egg

What does cuckoo's egg mean?
Cuckoo's egg means anything harmful that is infiltrated into a place in order to develop and emerge there.
What part of speech is cuckoo's egg?
Cuckoo's egg is a noun.

Words near cuckoo's egg in the dictionary

  1. cuckoo theories
  2. cuckoo theory
  3. cuckoo wasp
  4. cuckoo wasps
  5. cuckoo's bread
  6. cuckoo's egg
  7. cuckoo's meat
  8. cuckoo's nest
  9. cuckoo's nests
  10. cuckoo-bread
  11. cuckoo-dove

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