Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a breed of medium-sized domestic chickens originally developed in North America for eggs and meat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An American variety of the domestic hen, of medium size and compact form, hardy, and valuable for eggs and for the table.
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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Wyandot . - noun A breed of
poultry .
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Examples
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Two years ago while bowhunting in Wyandotte co Kansas I saw a buck that had the same weird antlers as the old buck.
Age Before Beauty? 2008
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It was at this time that the surviving Hurons journeyed to the Sandusky Bay region and became known as the Wyandotte, a word derived from their language meaning "in the islands."
Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio 2007
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Four members of a Kansas City, Kan., church made their first appearances today in Wyandotte County District Court on charges of abusing four children.
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Investigators in Wyandotte and Johnson County are working on the Edgar case.
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The Wyandotte is a kind of fowl sheep watermelon 83 84
Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8 Lewis M. Terman
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This made it necessary for me to call the Wyandotte into touch, which I did; and the other Oneida, the "Night-Hawk," or Tahoontowhee, closed in from the extreme outer flank.
The Hidden Children 1899
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This tenderness is plainly to be seen in "The Spy," written at the beginning of his career; it is still more marked in "Wyandotte," produced in the latter part of it, when circumstances had made him profoundly dissatisfied with much that he saw about him.
James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury 1876
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Would re-defining himself as "Wyandotte" hold Nick back forever?
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In Baton Rouge, regulators spent four hours checking the air quality outside Wyandotte Early Childhood Center, a preschool blocks from an ExxonMobil refinery.
States' tests for toxic air near schools called into doubt 2009
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One of those monitors is about 2 miles from Wyandotte.
States' tests for toxic air near schools called into doubt 2009
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May 30, 2016