Food produced in layers (3)
This could be a double definition.
'food' is the first definition.
(eggs is a kind of food)
'layers' is the second definition.
The definition and answer can be both animals as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'produced in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for eggs that I've seen before include "Ova" , "__ Benedict" , "Oval food items" , "Ovoid objects" , "Bombs or mines (slang)" .)
'food' is the definition.
(egg is a kind of food)
I can't explain the rest of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for egg that I've seen before include "Laid item" , "Cooked breakfast staple" , "The advertising slogan exhorted us to go to work on one" , "Bomb or mine (sl.)" , "Thin-shelled reproductive body" .)