English word senses marked with lifeform category "Chickens"
Parent categories: Fowls, Poultry, Birds, Livestock, Vertebrates, Agriculture, Animals, Chordates, Applied sciences, Lifeforms, Sciences, Life, Nature
Total 83 word senses
- Ancona (Noun) A breed of poultry.
- Araucana (Noun) A type of poultry notable for laying blue or green eggs.
- Bekisar (Noun) A Javanese hybrid between a green junglefowl and either the local subspecies of red junglefowl, Gallus gallus bankiva, or a domestic chicken.
- Brahma (Proper name) Alternative form of Brahman
- Brahmaputra (Proper name) A river which flows through Tibet, India and Bangladesh.
- Campine (Proper name) A region to the east of the city of Antwerp, Belgium (in the provinces of Antwerp and Limburg), and southwest of Eindhoven, the Netherlands (in the province of North Brabant).
- Chantecler (Noun) A breed of chicken originating in Canada, extremely cold-resistant and used for egg and meat production.
- Chicken Little (Proper name) A children’s fable about a young chicken who, in the traditional version, believes the sky is falling after an acorn hits her head. Also known by other names including The Sky is Falling.
- Cochin fowl (Noun) A large variety of the domestic fowl.
- Cornish game hen (Noun) A young broiler chicken (not an actual game bird, nor necessarily female) sold whole.
- Cornish hen (Noun) Synonym of Cornish game hen
- Dorking (Noun) A Dorking fowl.
- Dorking fowl (Noun) One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double.
- Faverolles (Noun) A chicken of a heavy breed with beard, muffs, feathered feet and five toes per foot.
- Indian Game (Noun) A breed of poultry.
- Light Sussex (Noun) A breed of poultry.
- Marans (Noun) A small breed of chicken originating in France popular for poultry shows and its eggs, rather than for its meat.
- Minorca (Proper name) A breed of poultry.
- North Holland Blue (Noun) A breed of poultry.
- Orpington (Proper name) A town in Greater London, in southeastern England.
- Plymouth Rock (Proper name) The traditionally accepted landing site of the Mayflower settlers to America in 1620, on the shore of Massachusetts.
- Polish (Adjective) Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.
- Rhode Island Red (Noun) A breed of poultry.
- Shanghai (Proper name) A major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China.
- Sri Lankan junglefowl (Noun) A species of fowl, Gallus lafayettii, endemic to, and national bird of, Sri Lanka.
- Sussex (Proper name) A placename.; A borough of New Jersey, United States.
- Wyandotte (Proper name) A placename:; Ellipsis of Wyandotte County.
- a chicken in every pot (Noun) something suggestive of general welfare or prosperity
- bachelor's handbag (Noun) A roast chicken sold in a disposable plastic carry bag with a handle.
- bankiva (Noun) Gallus gallus bankiva, a subspecies of the red junglefowl
- bantam (Noun) Any of several small chickens, especially of a breed that is a miniature version of another breed.
- bantam (Adjective) Small or miniature.
- broiler (Noun) A device used to broil food; part of an oven or a small stove; known as a grill in British English.
- capon (Noun) A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
- caponet (Noun) A young capon.
- caponize (Verb) To castrate (a cockerel) in order to fatten it for table use.
- chick (Noun) A friendly fighter aircraft.
- chicken (Noun) A domesticated species of junglefowl (usually, Gallus gallus; sometimes, Gallus gallus domesticus or Gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.
- chicken (Noun) The game of dare.; A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (that is, the loser).
- chicken (Adjective) Cowardly.
- chicken paw (Noun) The foot of a chicken, cut off at the ankle, and used for food.
- chickie (Noun) A chick, a baby chicken
- chook (Interjection) A call made to chickens.
- chookie (Noun) A small or young domestic fowl; a chick.
- chuck (Noun) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
- chuckle (Verb) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
- cock (Noun) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- cock (Noun) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
- cockerel (Noun) A young male chicken.
- cockscomb (Noun) A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
- duckwing (Noun) Any of various types of chicken noted for their triangular wing patch
- galline (Adjective) of, or pertaining to, the chicken
- gamecock (Noun) A rooster used in cockfighting.
- gospel bird (Noun) fried chicken
- green junglefowl (Noun) A species of junglefowl, Gallus varius, native to Java and several islands near it to the east.
- grey junglefowl (Noun) A species of fowl, Gallus sonneratii, endemic to India.
- hen (Noun) A female chicken (Gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for her eggs.
- hen (Noun) A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.
- hen (Noun) A hen night.
- hen (Noun) An affectionate term of address used to women or girls.
- hen (Noun) The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), a bivalve shellfish.
- henwife (Noun) A woman in charge of domestic fowl; sometimes used contemptuously about men.
- junglefowl (Noun) Any of four semiflightless, gallinaceous game birds of the genus Gallus, native to southeast Asia, including the red junglefowl or domestic chicken.
- leghorn (Noun) A small white chicken of a hardy breed.
- partlet (Noun) A hen (originally in the form Dame Partlet).
- peeper (Noun) A peeping tom.
- poulard (Noun) Poulard wheat.
- poussin (Noun) A Cornish game hen.
- pullet (Noun) A spineless person; a coward.
- red junglefowl (Noun) A junglefowl of the species Gallus gallus, native to south and east Asia.
- redcap (Noun) A porter in a US railway station.
- redcap (Noun) A European goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis).
- redcap (Noun) A type of evil goblin or imp.
- redcap (Noun) A breed of poultry.
- roostcock (Noun) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
- rooster (Noun) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
- run around like a chicken with its head cut off (Verb) To act in a haphazard or aimless way; to act frantically or without control.
- shanghai (Noun) A breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.
- shanghai (Noun) Synonym of slingshot.
- shanghai (Verb) To hit with a slingshot.
- silkie (Noun) 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).
- supercock (Noun) A formidable gamecock.
- yardfowl (Noun) A political sycophant.
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