egg sac
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The organism’s various states of evolution — as an egg sac or the Facehuggers that hatch from them — are back too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025
One egg sac can carry hundreds of eggs.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
It can also spread when the spiderlings first hatch from the egg sac.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2022
A striped fishing spider spinning an egg sac was among the winners in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year photo competition sponsored by the Natural History Museum in London.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 20, 2021
This egg sac is my great work—the finest thing I have ever made.”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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