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NAME AND SHAPE. 
Toe HE egg is one of the few things in 
GX: the world original and positive in 
24 itself. Though some specimens are 
“~** yound and some oblong, the usual 
shape cannot be described by words applicable 
to other objects. 
The egg is oval; that is, ege-shaped, since that 
word is derived directly from the Latin name 
for the egg — ovum. 
Not only does the egg name itself, but it gives 
rise to words descriptive of other objects. 
Ovum may have been derived from the Latin 
avis, a bird. From this root come the words 
oval, ovary, ovate, ovolo, ovule, ete. 
The Greek word meaning egg was oév ; and 
from this comes odlogy, etc. The same word 
was sometimes used to describe a bald head. 
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