HARD-COOKED EGG

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify

Synonyms:

hard-boiled egg; hard-cooked egg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hard-cooked egg" is a kind of...):

boiled egg; coddled egg (egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hard-cooked egg"):

Easter egg (a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter)

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