English Explanatory Dictionary

cuckoo's egg

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

cuckoo's egg

Etymology

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

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