cuckoo's egg

English

Etymology

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

Noun

cuckoo's egg

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