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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a breed of American domestic chickens having black-and-white barred plumage and yellow legs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Name of a West Indian island: applied to an old American breed of fowls having barred plumage resembling that of the Plymouth Rock.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zool.) an American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An American breed of chicken with a rose comb and a heavy plumage of irregularly striped black-and-white feathers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun American breed of chicken having barred grey plumage raised for meat and brown eggs

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Dominica.]

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