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Yes, but is a chicken egg one that's laid by a chicken, or one that hatches the chicken? The answer to that question affects the answer to which came first
It's one that contains a chicken:
A chocolate egg is an egg that contains chocolate, not one that is laid by chocolate.
QED
Most eggs you buy in the store are unfertilized and therefore don't really contain chicken. They are still called chicken eggs. Therefore what lays the egg determines what it is called.
There was never any point where a non-chicken laid an egg that hatched into a chicken. Evolution doesn’t care about our categories, just as the rainbow doesn’t care about our colour words!
It's one that hatches a chicken. An egg layed by a chicken is a chicken*'s* egg. If a chicken doesn't come out of it, it ain't a chicken egg.