English noun: poultry |
1. | poultry (animal) a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl |
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| Synonyms | domestic fowl, fowl |
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| Broader (hypernym) | gallinacean, gallinaceous bird |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bantam, chicken, cochin, cochin china, Cornish, Cornish fowl, Dorking, Gallus gallus, game fowl, guinea, guinea fowl, Meleagris gallopavo, Numida meleagris, Plymouth Rock, Rock Cornish, turkey |
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| Part holonym | poultry, saddle |
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| Member meronym | Gallus, genus Gallus |
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2. | poultry (food) flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bird, fowl |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | chicken, dove, duck, goose, guinea hen, poulet, Rock Cornish hen, squab, turkey, volaille |
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| Part meronym | domestic fowl, fowl, poultry |
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