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hen
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[ noun ] (zoology) adult female chicken
Synonyms Used in print (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)The queen afterward keeps incubating and guarding her eggs like a mother hen , taking a sip from_time_to_time from the rather liquid honey in her honey pots . (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)`` What I want you to do is to go_to the market with me early tomorrow morning and help smuggle the hen back into the hotel '' . Inside , carefully packed in straw , were six eggs , but the eye of a poultry psychologist was required to detect what scientifically valuable specimentalia lay inside ; to Alex they were merely six not unusual hens ' eggs . `` This is my hen ledger '' , he informed him in an absorbed way . date of laying , length of incubation_period , number of chicks reaching the first week , second week , fifth week , weight of hen , size of rooster 's wattles and_so_on , all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English , the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen . |
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[ noun ] (zoology) adult female bird
Used in print (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)It was a grotesque hen , five or six feet tall . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing
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[ noun ] (zoology) female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster
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