domestic fowl; fowl; poultry
a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
Type of:
gallinaceous bird; gallinacean
Types:
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
Parts:
Gallus; genus Gallus
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