noun
a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
• Hypernyms: ↑gallinaceous bird, ↑gallinacean
• Hyponyms:
↑Dorking, ↑Plymouth Rock, ↑Cornish, ↑Cornish fowl, ↑Rock Cornish, ↑game fowl, ↑cochin, ↑cochin china, ↑chicken, ↑Gallus gallus, ↑bantam, ↑turkey, ↑Meleagris gallopavo, ↑guinea fowl, ↑guinea, ↑Numida meleagris
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gallus, ↑genus Gallus
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noun1. : poultry
2. : a bird of one of the breeds developed from the jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) including some specialized for meat production and others for egg laying, for fighting, or purely for ornament or show : chicken — see bantam, brahma, game fowl, leghorn
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1. a chicken.
2. poultry.
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domestic fowl,
any of various birds, especially chickens, which have been domesticated.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.