"silkie" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsɪlki/ Forms: silkies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪlki Head templates: {{en-noun}} silkie (plural silkies)
  1. A chicken of a certain breed with very fine, silk-like feathers, blue-black skin and bones, and five toes per foot (instead of the usual four). Categories (lifeform): Chickens Translations (breed of chicken): 烏骨雞 (Chinese Mandarin), 乌骨鸡 (wūgǔjī) (Chinese Mandarin), silkkikana (Finnish), 烏骨鶏 (ukokkei) (alt: うこっけい) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-silkie-en-noun-NyaVsN9J Disambiguation of Chickens: 71 29 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 36 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 67 33 Disambiguation of 'breed of chicken': 94 6
  2. Alternative spelling of selkie. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: selkie
    Sense id: en-silkie-en-noun-wAAnaDPf
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: silky

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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