egg laying

1. 1.

   the production of eggs (especially in birds)

   Synonymslaying

   Broaderparturition

Questions about egg laying

What does egg laying mean?

egg laying means "the production of eggs (especially in birds)".

What is another word for egg laying?

Close synonyms include laying. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is egg laying a common word?

egg laying is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.