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GALLINA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl

Synonyms:

gallina; jungle fowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gallina" is a kind of...):

gallinacean; gallinaceous bird (heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gallina"):

jungle cock (male jungle fowl)

jungle hen (female jungle fowl)

Gallus gallus; red jungle fowl (a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl)

Holonyms ("gallina" is a member of...):

Gallus; genus Gallus (common domestic birds and related forms)

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