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The answer POULTRY has 18 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of poultry in various dictionaries:
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
Domestic fowls, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, or geese, raised for meat or eggs.
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Collective name for domesticated birds raised for meat & eggs |
Collective term for domesticated fowl like turkeys & chickens |
Just fowl, collectively (7) |
This 7-letter word refers to all domesticated birds which are raised for their eggs or meaf |
From Old French for "young hen", it's the term for domestic fowl in general |
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Domestic fowls, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, or geese, raised for meat or eggs. |
domestic fowl, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese. |
flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food |
a domesticated gallinaceous bird though to be descended from the red jungle fowl |
birds, such as chickens, that are bred for their eggs and meat: |
the meat from birds such as chickens |
birds, such as chickens, kept for their meat or eggs, or the meat from these birds: |
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Poultry () are domesticated birds kept by humans for their eggs, their meat or their feathers. These birds are most typically members of the superorder Galloanserae (fowl), especially the order Galliformes (which includes chickens, quails, and turkeys). * Poultry also includes other birds that are killed for their meat, such as the young of pigeons (known as squabs) but does not include similar wild birds hunted for sport or food and known as game. The word "poultry" comes from the French/Norman word poule, itself derived from the Latin word pullus, which means small animal. * The domestication of poultry took place several thousand years ago. This may have originally been as a result of people hatching and rearing young birds from eggs collected from the wild, but later involved keeping the birds permanently in captivity. Domesticated chickens may have been used for cockfighting at first and quail kept for their songs, but soon it was realised how useful it was having a captive-bred sourc |