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salted eggs

salted eggs is the plural of salted egg.

Meaning of salted egg

Noun

salted egg (plural salted eggs)

  1. A Chinese preserved food consisting of a duck egg that has been soaked in brine or packed in damp, salted charcoal.
    • Father Semedo and Brother Sebastian, on account of their illness, and by extraordinary favour, were allowed half a hard salted egg each, instead of the herbs.1857, Evariste Régis Huc, Christianity in China, Tartary and Thibet: From the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope to the establishment of the Mantchoo-Tartar dynasty in China, page 243
    Synonyms:
    salted duck egg

Questions about salted eggs

What is salted eggs the plural of?
Salted eggs is the plural of salted egg.

Words near salted eggs in the dictionary

  1. salted away
  2. salted bomb
  3. salted bombs
  4. salted down
  5. salted egg
  6. salted eggs
  7. salted out
  8. salted the earth
  9. salted the mine
  10. salted up
  11. saltee

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