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DOMESTIC FOWL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl

Synonyms:

domestic fowl; fowl; poultry

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Nouns denoting animals

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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