Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Domesticated fowl, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, or geese, raised for meat or eggs.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun domestic fowl (chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs)
  • noun the meat from a domestic fowl

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
  • noun flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English pultrie, from Old French pouletrie, from pouletier, poultry dealer, from poulet, pullet; see pullet.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

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