"battery hen" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: battery hens [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} battery hen (plural battery hens)
  1. A hen kept in a small cage or battery. Categories (lifeform): Poultry Translations (hen kept in small cage): burhøne [common-gender] (Danish), häkkikana (Finnish), burhøne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), burhøns [neuter, plural] (Norwegian Bokmål), burhöna [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-battery_hen-en-noun-PyIUkvEb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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