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Domestic fowl   /dəmˈɛstɪk faʊl/   Listen
Domestic fowl

noun
1.
A domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl.  Synonyms: fowl, poultry.






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"Domestic fowl" Quotes from Famous Books



... you ever perchance, when in a farm-yard, observe hen or other domestic fowl, who having pounced upon half a potato, or something of the same description too large to be bolted down at once, tries to escape with her prize, followed by all the rest, until she either drops it or eludes their vigilance? If so, ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat

... object," he had said to Mr. Robinson, only a week before the house was opened. "I wish I could make you understand that you have no capital." "I would I could divest you of the idea and the money too," said Robinson. But it was all of no use. A domestic fowl that has passed all its days at a barn-door can never soar on the eagle's wing. Now Mr. Brown was the domestic fowl, while the eagle's pinion belonged to his youngest partner. By whom in that firm the kite was personified, shall not here ...
— The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - By One of the Firm • Anthony Trollope

... Yermolai, who was abusing him in every known and unknown dialect. Yermolai belonged to one of my neighbours, a landowner of the old style. Landowners of the old style don't care for game, and prefer the domestic fowl. Only on extraordinary occasions, such as birthdays, namedays, and elections, the cooks of the old-fashioned landowners set to work to prepare some long-beaked birds, and, falling into the state of frenzy peculiar to Russians when they don't ...
— A Sportsman's Sketches - Works of Ivan Turgenev, Vol. I • Ivan Turgenev



Words linked to "Domestic fowl" :   gallinaceous bird, Numida meleagris, game fowl, cochin china, saddle, gallus, genus Gallus, Rock Cornish, fowl, gallinacean, Meleagris gallopavo, Cornish, Gallus gallus, cochin, guinea fowl, turkey, chicken, bantam, Plymouth Rock, Dorking, Cornish fowl, guinea



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