English word senses marked with lifeform category "Chickens"

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Total 88 word senses

• Ancona (Proper name) An unincorporated community in Reading Township, Livingston County, Illinois, United States, named after Ancona, Italy.
• Araucana (Noun) A type of poultry notable for laying blue or green eggs.
• Bekisar (Noun) An Eastern Javan 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 (Noun) A chicken of a breed originating from the aforementioned region.
• 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) The Cochin (chicken).
• 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) One of the Balearic Islands of Spain.
• 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 civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
• 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.
• bantam (Adjective) Spirited or aggressive.
• battery cage (Noun) A small cage in which a hen is kept to lay eggs.
• 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.
• chick (Verb) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
• chick (Noun) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
• chick culling (Noun) In agriculture, the culling (destruction) of chicks (baby birds, typically chickens). In the egg industry, this means destruction of male chicks at birth because they won't lay eggs.
• chicken (Noun) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus 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 (Noun) A chicken, especially a hen.
• chook (Noun) A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
• chook (Noun) Affectionate name for a person
• chook (Noun) A chicken.
• chook (Interjection) A call made to chickens.
• chookie (Noun) A small or young domestic fowl; a chick.
• chuck (Noun) Money.
• chuckle (Verb) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen calls her chickens; to cluck.
• cock (Noun) A male bird, especially:; A cock pigeon.
• 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 European goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis).
• 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.
• silkie (Noun) Alternative spelling of selkie.
• squab (Adjective) Shy; coy.
• supercock (Noun) A formidable gamecock.
• yardfowl (Noun) A political sycophant.

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