Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of an American breed of medium-sized domestic chickens raised for both meat and eggs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large and serviceable variety of the domestic hen, of American origin.
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- proper noun The traditionally accepted
landing site of theMayflower settlers toAmerica in 1620. - proper noun A breed of
poultry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower
- noun an American breed of domestic fowl
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mississippi River for 300 years; thousands of Europeans first set foot in North America there, earning the nickname Plymouth Rock of the
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Mississippi River for 300 years; thousands of Europeans first set foot in North America there, earning the nickname Plymouth Rock of the
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In 1909 note that date: Halsted had just wrapped up his study of the mastectomy; Neely was yet to advertise his “reward” for the cure for cancer, then a thirty-year-old scientist freshly launching his lab at the Rockefeller Institute, Peyton Rous had been brought a tumor growing on the back of a hen of a black-and-white species of chicken called Plymouth Rock.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In 1909 note that date: Halsted had just wrapped up his study of the mastectomy; Neely was yet to advertise his “reward” for the cure for cancer, then a thirty-year-old scientist freshly launching his lab at the Rockefeller Institute, Peyton Rous had been brought a tumor growing on the back of a hen of a black-and-white species of chicken called Plymouth Rock.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In 1909 note that date: Halsted had just wrapped up his study of the mastectomy; Neely was yet to advertise his “reward” for the cure for cancer, then a thirty-year-old scientist freshly launching his lab at the Rockefeller Institute, Peyton Rous had been brought a tumor growing on the back of a hen of a black-and-white species of chicken called Plymouth Rock.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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And you probably know that Thanksgiving has something to do with the first European settlers in America - the Pilgrims - who landed at what we now call Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts in 1620.
Dr. Robert Epstein: Thanksgiving, Activism -- and Arianna Huffington! 2009
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Legend has it that they first stepped onto land at a big rock, called Plymouth Rock (however, there is no real evidence of this).
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Now, every once in a while, one of these New Englanders that owns the earth, especially that little stone portion called Plymouth Rock, which we never begrudged them, gets up at a great dinner and reads a fine speech and talks about civil and religious liberty which the Puritan came over to cause to flourish.
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various
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They disembarked on the flat bowlder known as Plymouth Rock and set to work to make their home.
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890
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Then at last all the tired Pilgrims landed from the ship on a spot now called Plymouth Rock, and the first house was begun on Christmas Day.
The Story Hour Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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