English Explanatory Dictionary

century egg

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Chinese delicacy made by preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, quicklime and rice hulls for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

century egg century eggs

Synonyms

preserved egg hundred-year egg thousand-year egg thousand-year-old egg millennium egg pidan songhuadan pei daan
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