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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A domesticated bird, such as a chicken, duck, goose, or turkey, that is raised as food.
- noun The domesticated chicken, Gallus domesticus.
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- noun a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
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