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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