Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A medium-sized domestic chicken of a breed developed in North America for its eggs and meat.
- n. Variant of Wyandot.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An American variety of the domestic hen, of medium size and compact form, hardy, and valuable for eggs and for the table. The silver wyandotte, the typical variety, has every feather white in the middle and heavily margined with black, except the black tail-feathers and primaries, the hackle (and in males the saddle), which is white striped with black, and the white wing-bows of the males. The golden wyandotte replaces the white of the silver variety by orange or deep-buff; and the white wyandotte is pure-white. The combs are lose, legs yellow, and ear-lobes red.
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“Two years ago while bowhunting in Wyandotte co Kansas I saw a buck that had the same weird antlers as the old buck.”
“It was at this time that the surviving Hurons journeyed to the Sandusky Bay region and became known as the Wyandotte, a word derived from their language meaning "in the islands.”
“Investigators in Wyandotte and Johnson County are working on the Edgar case.”
“Four members of a Kansas City, Kan., church made their first appearances today in Wyandotte County District Court on charges of abusing four children.”
“The Wyandotte is a kind of fowl sheep watermelon 83 84”
Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8
“This made it necessary for me to call the Wyandotte into touch, which I did; and the other Oneida, the "Night-Hawk," or Tahoontowhee, closed in from the extreme outer flank.”
“This tenderness is plainly to be seen in "The Spy," written at the beginning of his career; it is still more marked in "Wyandotte," produced in the latter part of it, when circumstances had made him profoundly dissatisfied with much that he saw about him.”
“Would re-defining himself as "Wyandotte" hold Nick back forever?”
“In Baton Rouge, regulators spent four hours checking the air quality outside Wyandotte Early Childhood Center, a preschool blocks from an ExxonMobil refinery.”
“One of those monitors is about 2 miles from Wyandotte.”
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