Definition of Domestic fowl

1. Noun. A domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Domestic Fowl

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domestic-debt
domestic animal
domestic blindness
domestic carp
domestic cat
domestic cats
domestic debt
domestic debts
domestic dispute
domestic dog
domestic duck
domestic ducks
domestic flight
domestic fowl (current term)
domestic goat
domestic goddess
domestic help
domestic hot water
domestic llama
domestic partner
domestic partnership
domestic partnerships
domestic pigeon
domestic pigeons
domestic policy council
domestic prelate
domestic relations court
domestic science

Literary usage of Domestic fowl

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1851)
"domestic fowl; their Natural History, Breeding, Rearing, and General Management. ... Ornamental, Aquatic, and domestic fowl, and Game Birds; ..."

2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1915)
"(1) Studies on the Physiology of Reproduction in the domestic fowl. VII, Data Regarding the Brooding Instinct in its Relation to Egg Production. (Jour. ..."

3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"STUDIES ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION IN THE domestic fowl. ... Among the eggs of the domestic fowl an egg which contains another egg is quite rare, ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"584 Swan 585 Turkey 586 Origin of the domestic fowl. Callus spp. ... The domestic fowl belongs to the group of scratching birds that includes also the ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1917)
"THE SEX RATIO IN THE domestic fowl.1 BY RAYMOND PEARL. (Read April 13, 1917.) I. INTRODUCTION. One of the most notable biological discoveries of recent ..."

6. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"•regard the domestic fowl as unclean, and in districts inhabited by them not a single fowl is to be ..."

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