Chicken Bird Plural

Any of various birds or their young. Mass noun A game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser.

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Chicken bird plural. For example a plural noun like tulips in a sentence such as 1 suggests that Chicken planted multiple tulips ie a reading which excludes atomic individual tulips. Compare cock hen see also spring chicken. Only in rural dialects mostly in the 19th century in the southwest of England has chicken ever been used as a.

Generally a poultry industry term and not commonly used. The meat of the chicken used as food. The meat from this bird eaten as food.

A male chicken is called a rooster or a cock and a female chicken is called a hen. The common domestic fowl Gallus gallus especially when young also. The sound of chickens clucking.

As well explain the -en in chicken was originally a diminutive not a plural ending. The plural form of fowl is fowl or fowls. Bondholders are playing a dangerous game of chicken because they feel they have little to lose.

Another word for Opposite of Meaning of Rhymes with Sentences with Find word forms Translate from English Translate to English Words With Friends Scrabble Crossword Codeword Words starting with Words ending with Words containing exactly Words containing letters Pronounce Find. Chicken n Old English cicen plural cicenu young of the domestic hen the young of any bird by early Middle English any chicken regardless of age from Proto-Germanic kiukinam source also of Middle Dutch kiekijen Dutch kieken Old Norse kjuklingr Swedish kyckling German Küken chicken from root keuk-echoic of the birds sound and possibly also the root of cock n1 diminutive suffixes. Roast chicken with wild mushrooms.

A flock of cedar waxwings. The crop is an out-pocketing of the esophagus and is located just outside the. He lay in the road playing chicken.

More examples - hide examples Example sentences - Hide examples. However in more specific contexts the plural form can also be poultries eg. 8 dont count your chickens until theyve hatched Dem DCE nach wird der Plural regelmäßig gebildet.

Chickens were pecking at the ground. Alinkabd Yes you refer to meat from birds as poultry. Often used before another noun.

Chicken is the flesh of this bird eaten as food. A flock of birds a flight of birds in the air. A brood of chickens.

We had chicken for dinner. It carries food from the mouth to the crop and from the crop to the proventriculus. Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat.

They keep chickens in the back yard. In reference to various types of poultries or a collection of poultries. An ear-full of cedar waxwings.

The word chicken is singular and has been since Old English. Cooked chicken countable A chicken is a bird that farmers raise for meat and eggs. Chicken colonel plural chicken colonels US slang dated military A member of the US armed forces having the rank of full colonel as distinct from a lieutenant colonel.

A type of bird kept on a farm for its eggs or its meat or the meat of this bird which is cooked and eaten Note. You refer to live birds that are raised for food as poultry. If you are talking about a single bird you use its name.

The noun poultry can be countable or uncountable. Chicken is singular for an adult female. That book is wrong.

A flock of chickens. In more general commonly used contexts the plural form will also be poultry. Plural chickens Chick is singular for the baby bird.

Uncountable Chicken is the meat of a chicken. My father went out back caught a chicken cut off its head and cleaned it for dinner. Roast chicken fried chicken.

The esophagus is a flexible tube that connects the mouth with the rest of the digestive tract. Anchored in superior food and service andCHICKEN Food Beverage Company cooks and serves a multicultural palate of meals around the chicken in a cozy and fun environment. Generic Bird fledgling nestling hatchling chick.

Its flesh used as food compare jungle fowl. Athe chicken athe turkey In rare cases poultries does apply when you are talking multiple kinds of live poultry. 1 C a common farm bird that is kept for its meat and eggs.

A museum of cedar waxwings. Countable a large bird that is often kept for its eggs or meat. Lionel built a coop so that they could raise chickens and have a supply of fresh eggs.

1951 The Face Is. A bird that is raised by people for its eggs and meat. Chicken chick pullet young hen cockerel young rooster.

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