"Pharaoh's chicken" meaning in English

See Pharaoh's chicken in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Pharaoh's chickens [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|head=Pharaoh's chicken}} Pharaoh's chicken (plural Pharaoh's chickens)
  1. Alternative form of pharaoh's chicken Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: pharaoh's chicken
    Sense id: en-Pharaoh's_chicken-en-noun-MWrXnth9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Pharaoh's chicken meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Pharaoh's chickens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Pharaoh's chicken"
      },
      "expansion": "Pharaoh's chicken (plural Pharaoh's chickens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pharaoh's chicken"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1883 September, Harriet C. W. Stanton, “Poets and Birds: A Criticism”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 52, page 346",
          "text": "As for the eagle of Scripture, it is believed to be not merely \"as often as not,\" but invariably, the vulture ; not Pharaoh's chicken, however, but the griffon vulture.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Philip S. Callahan, The Magnificent Birds of Prey, page 22",
          "text": "This strange bird, known in literature as the \"Pharaoh's chicken,\" is a tool-user. Unlikely as it may seem, this places the lowly Pharaoh's chicken with man and higher primates as users of eating utensils.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, page 84",
          "text": "Leave them for Pharoah's chickens, sailing up on their wide black-tipped wings on the thermals, rising in lazy circles before dropping to ground, graceful as circus acrobats, to hunch and tear.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of pharaoh's chicken"
      ],
      "id": "en-Pharaoh's_chicken-en-noun-MWrXnth9",
      "links": [
        [
          "pharaoh's chicken",
          "pharaoh's chicken#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pharaoh's chicken"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Pharaoh's chickens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Pharaoh's chicken"
      },
      "expansion": "Pharaoh's chicken (plural Pharaoh's chickens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pharaoh's chicken"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1883 September, Harriet C. W. Stanton, “Poets and Birds: A Criticism”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 52, page 346",
          "text": "As for the eagle of Scripture, it is believed to be not merely \"as often as not,\" but invariably, the vulture ; not Pharaoh's chicken, however, but the griffon vulture.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Philip S. Callahan, The Magnificent Birds of Prey, page 22",
          "text": "This strange bird, known in literature as the \"Pharaoh's chicken,\" is a tool-user. Unlikely as it may seem, this places the lowly Pharaoh's chicken with man and higher primates as users of eating utensils.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, page 84",
          "text": "Leave them for Pharoah's chickens, sailing up on their wide black-tipped wings on the thermals, rising in lazy circles before dropping to ground, graceful as circus acrobats, to hunch and tear.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of pharaoh's chicken"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pharaoh's chicken",
          "pharaoh's chicken#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pharaoh's chicken"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.