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DOMESTIC FOWL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("domestic fowl" is a kind of...):
gallinacean; gallinaceous bird (heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds)
Meronyms (parts of "domestic fowl"):
saddle (posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl)
poultry (flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "domestic fowl"):
Dorking (an English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled))
Plymouth Rock (an American breed of domestic fowl)
Cornish; Cornish fowl (English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters)
Rock Cornish (small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl)
game fowl (any of several breeds reared for cockfighting)
cochin; cochin china (Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs)
chicken; Gallus gallus (a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl)
bantam (any of various small breeds of fowl)
Meleagris gallopavo; turkey (large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food)
guinea; guinea fowl; Numida meleagris (a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world)
Holonyms ("domestic fowl" is a member of...):
Gallus; genus Gallus (common domestic birds and related forms)
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