Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Domestic fowls, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, or geese, raised for meat or eggs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Domestic fowls collectively; those birds which are ordinarily kept in a state of domestication for their flesh, eggs, or feathers, as the domestic hen, turkeys, guinea-fowl, geese, and ducks. Pigeons are not ordinarily included in the term, nor are pheasants or other birds which are kept in preserves for sporting purposes.
- n. A number of specimens of the common hen, as distinguished from ducks, geese, etc.; particularly, chickens dressed for market.
Wiktionary
- n. domestic fowl (chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs)
- n. the meat from a domestic fowl
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
- n. flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
Etymologies
- From Old French pouleterie, from poulet, diminutive of poule ("hen"), from Latin pullus ("chick") (Wiktionary)
- Middle English pultrie, from Old French pouletrie, from pouletier, poultry dealer, from poulet, pullet; see pullet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Enough to say the poultry is all to evacuate the premises at Christmas, and meanwhile the cock is shut up in a dark cellar from darkening till after our breakfast.”
“Inn, any day before Saturday, at four precisely, when you will find none of your half-starved, long-limbed bundles of bones, which you call poultry at the table-d'hôte, but a right Chitty-gong fowl!”
“A good glaze for poultry is made with ancho or chipotle chiles combined with honey, and a sauce for roast chicken or pork uses chiles, honey and cilantro.”
“Also, the WTO ruled that a U.S. ban on Chinese poultry is illegal, giving Beijing a win in the first international commerce ruling against the Obama administration.”
“In terms of the land use and sights, near Tehuacan you'll see long narrow white-topped buildings where poultry is produced and then trucked throughout the state of Puebla and other nearby states.”
A driving tour from Oaxaca to San Cristobal de las Casas and Palenque: Part Two
“A specialist in poultry, he helped invent such oddities as chicken nuggets, turkey ham, and poultry hot dogs.”
The Huffington Post: Meathead Goldwyn: Crispy Cornell Chicken: An Upstate New York Classic
“Daniel Etheridge, associate director at the Tulane City Center, said raising poultry is an appropriate urban activity when people have the right training and experience.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Buchanan: New Orleans Food Farms Struggle With Toxins and Red Tape
“Under no circumstances is it acceptable to label poultry that has been enhanced with water or broth or solutions as natural, or all natural.”
The Huffington Post: Chicken Producers Debate 'Natural' Label
“Optimizing Haiti's staple food agriculture products such as rice, sugar and poultry translates into food security for Haiti as well as the potential for green energy production.”
“Turns out “... organic poultry is actually less nutritious, contains more fat and tastes worse than its mass-produced equivalent, research has shown.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘poultry’.
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Chickens
For more "odd-sounding chicken breeds & chicken-related words," see serendoxity's Fowl Words.
Barred Rock, Rhode Island Red, Australorp, Cochin, Fayoumi, Hamburg, White Leghorn, Minorca, Wyandotte, Golden Penciled H..., Blue Andalusians, Cuckoo Maran and 132 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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AGRI - animal husbandry
Terms used in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy referring to policy issues in the animal husbandry sector.
bovine animals, beef labelling, animal husbandry, animal keeper, ear tag, electric fence, kid meat, wean off, battery, beekeeping, laying hen, pig meat and 140 more...
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If At First You Don't Succeed...
country, vestry, cabinetry, idolatry, entry, poultry, harlotry, banditry, pantry, sultry, conchyliometry, bathymetry
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Meats: For All the Carnivores out There
Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!
Just kidding. Kind of.yak, wood pigeon, wild turkey, wild boar, venison, veal, turtle, turkey, squirrel, squab, snail, rattlesnake and 51 more...
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The O.U.P. Junior Dictionary Death Row
Another news story about words being removed from a dictionary before their time. See also the list of words added to the dictionary.
carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe, dwarf, elf, goblin, abbey, aisle, altar, bishop and 137 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
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5-1
Hecko, words! Thanks for staying with me. :-)
avenue, viscous, zeroth, usher, scarcely, viability, snout, sole, purify, riotous, menace, moist and 364 more...
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sfan
wan, citroen, aramaic, arabic, hebrew, mosque, oran, synagogue, anisette, almighty, blum, cremieux and 55 more...
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Dewdrops
Sparkling words I love :3
photograph, maelstrom, necromancy, pristine, cremation, euphamism, railway, xeric, journey, smear, crypt, gangrene and 43 more...
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Red Pyramid
agitated, boomerang, obelisk, curator, decipher, ominous, vague, relic, hieroglyphics, amulet, chip on one's sho..., linger and 38 more...
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Red Pyramid
amulet, relic, hieroglyphics, decipher, ominous, curator, boomerang, vague, agitated, obelisk, linger, hereditary and 48 more...
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Red Pyramid
Red Pyramid
amulet, relic, hieroglyphic, decipher, ominous, curator, boomerang, agitated, obelisk, linger, ankh, chip on one's sho... and 37 more...
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few, small or little words
pauciloquoys
few, paucity, poco, parvovirus, paraffin, pauper, poor, poverty, depauperate, impoverish, foal, filly and 80 more...
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New Words
New Words - Building my own vocabulary
brownfield, greenfield, behalf, pet peeve, lead time, mock, proxy, craftsman, cliff, Nimble, Awkward, craftsmanship and 85 more...
Tweets
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