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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Domestic fowls, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, or geese, raised for meat or eggs.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. n. A number of specimens of the common hen, as distinguished from ducks, geese, etc.; particularly, chickens dressed for market.

Wiktionary

  1. n. domestic fowl (chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs)
  2. n. the meat from a domestic fowl

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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

  1. n. a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
  2. n. flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

Etymologies

  1. From Old French pouleterie, from poulet, diminutive of poule ("hen"), from Latin pullus ("chick") (Wiktionary)
  2. 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)

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