egg capsule
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The egg capsule is golden brown and looks like a tiny lemon the size of a match head.
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2017
Each earthworm will form an egg capsule in its clitellum and pass it into the environment.
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2017
During this time, the gilled larval stage is found only within the egg capsule, with the gills being resorbed, and metamorphosis being completed, before hatching.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Found a flat hairy spider, about 1 in. in diameter of body, mottled pale brown and grey, brooding over a flat egg capsule almost of the same tints as itself.
From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
