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Definition of Jungle hen
1. Noun. Female jungle fowl.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jungle Hen
Literary usage of Jungle hen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spolia Zeylanica by National Museums of Sri Lanka, National Museums of Ceylon (1908)
"When her own eggs were removed from the jungle hen's nest, ... It would have been
a strange sight to have had a jungle hen strutting about the garden with ..."
2. Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp by Carl Lumholtz (1889)
"... which is found in great abundance in the lower part JUNGLE-HEN (Megapodius
tumulus). of the scrubs, but not higher up, ..."
3. Popular Tales and Fictions: Their Migrations and Transformations by William Alexander Clouston (1887)
"And the jackal was too glad to eat the jungle-hen ; so he immediately set off
after her: and the jungle- hen began to peck the ..."
4. Primitive Traditional History: The Primitive History and Chronology of India by James Francis Katherinus Hewitt (1907)
"... the jungle-hen which he had added to his club. His story as the sun-god of
the ethical reformation establishing the moral teachings of Zarathustra will ..."
5. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"II. C. Kendall, 'Poems,'p. 132: " Twenty white-haired Junes have left us Grey
with frost and bleak with gale." Jungle-hen, «. name given to a mound-building ..."
6. Letters on Sport in Eastern Bengal by Frank B. Simson (1886)
"... jungle-fowl are often put up suddenly and offer shots like grouse; at least
when I shot my first jungle-hen in this way I thought I had killed a grouse; ..."
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