Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Domesticated fowl, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, or geese, raised for meat or eggs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Domestic fowls collectively; those birds which are ordinarily kept in a state of domestication for their flesh, eggs, or feathers, as the domestic hen, turkeys, guinea-fowl, geese, and ducks.
- noun A number of specimens of the common hen, as distinguished from ducks, geese, etc.; particularly, chickens dressed for market.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
domestic fowl (chickens ,ducks ,turkeys andgeese ) raised forfood (eithermeat oreggs ) - noun the meat from a domestic fowl
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
- noun flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Enough to say the poultry is all to evacuate the premises at Christmas, and meanwhile the cock is shut up in a dark cellar from darkening till after our breakfast.
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Inn, any day before Saturday, at four precisely, when you will find none of your half-starved, long-limbed bundles of bones, which you call poultry at the table-d'hôte, but a right Chitty-gong fowl!
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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In terms of the land use and sights, near Tehuacan you'll see long narrow white-topped buildings where poultry is produced and then trucked throughout the state of Puebla and other nearby states.
A driving tour from Oaxaca to San Cristobal de las Casas and Palenque: Part Two 2009
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A specialist in poultry, he helped invent such oddities as chicken nuggets, turkey ham, and poultry hot dogs.
Meathead Goldwyn: Crispy Cornell Chicken: An Upstate New York Classic Meathead Goldwyn 2010
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A specialist in poultry, he helped invent such oddities as chicken nuggets, turkey ham, and poultry hot dogs.
Meathead Goldwyn: Crispy Cornell Chicken: An Upstate New York Classic Meathead Goldwyn 2010
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In terms of the land use and sights, near Tehuacan you'll see long narrow white-topped buildings where poultry is produced and then trucked throughout the state of Puebla and other nearby states.
A driving tour from Oaxaca to San Cristobal de las Casas and Palenque: Part Two 2009
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A good glaze for poultry is made with ancho or chipotle chiles combined with honey, and a sauce for roast chicken or pork uses chiles, honey and cilantro.
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A good glaze for poultry is made with ancho or chipotle chiles combined with honey, and a sauce for roast chicken or pork uses chiles, honey and cilantro.
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In terms of the land use and sights, near Tehuacan you'll see long narrow white-topped buildings where poultry is produced and then trucked throughout the state of Puebla and other nearby states.
A driving tour from Oaxaca to San Cristobal de las Casas and Palenque: Part Two 2009
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Also, the WTO ruled that a U.S. ban on Chinese poultry is illegal, giving Beijing a win in the first international commerce ruling against the Obama administration.
What's News 2010
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