Poultry

  • 51poultry louse — noun : any of several biting lice (genus Menopon) that attack poultry; especially : shaft louse …

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  • 52poultry — noun Etymology: Middle English pultrie, from Anglo French pulletrie, from pulleter poulterer, from pullet chicken more at pullet Date: 14th century domesticated birds kept for eggs or meat …

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  • 53poultry — noun a) domestic fowl (chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs) b) the meat from a domestic fowl See Also: poulter, poulterer …

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  • 54Poultry — noun a street in the City between Cheapside and Cornhill …

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  • 55poultry — Synonyms and related words: Bantam, banty, barn door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, broiler, brooder, broody hen, capon, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, fowl,… …

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  • 56poultry — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys; fowl[s], hens, broilers, fryers, roosters; pigeons, squab. See animal. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. fowl, domesticated birds, pullets, barnyard fowls; see chicken 1 , fowl …

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  • 57poultry — poul|try [ˈpəultri US ˈpoul ] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: pouleterie, from polet young chicken ] 1.) [plural] birds such as chickens and ducks that are kept on farms in order to produce eggs and meat 2.) [U] meat from birds such as… …

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  • 58poultry — A young fowl; a young turkey …

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  • 59poultry — poul·try || pəʊltrɪ n. domestic fowl, birds that are cultivated for their eggs or meat …

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  • 60poultry — [ pəʊltri] noun chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese; domestic fowl. Origin ME: from OFr. pouletrie, from poulet pullet …

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