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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



... divinity in things that are. Through him a child did feel that the chair he sat on was something like a wooden horse. Through him children and the happier kind of men did feel themselves covered by a roof as by the folded wings of some vast domestic fowl; and feel common doors like great mouths that opened to utter welcome. In the story of "The Fir Tree" he transplanted to England a living bush that can still blossom into candles. And in his tale of "The Tin Soldier" he uttered the true defence of romantic militarism against the ...
— The Crimes of England • G.K. Chesterton



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



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