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Definition of Caponized
1. caponize [v] - See also: caponize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caponized
Literary usage of Caponized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Impotence and Sterility: With Aberrations of the Sexual Function and Sex by George Frank Lydston (1917)
"The caponized subject showed fairly well developed secondary sex characters and
while more active than is usual with capons, presented a marked contrast ..."
2. Productive Poultry Husbandry: A Complete Text Dealing with the Principles by Harry Reynolds Lewis (1913)
"Cockerels of any breed can be made to increase greatly in weight by being caponized;
but the larger breeds permit of larger gains and arc the most desirable ..."
3. Gonadectomy in Relation to the Secondary Sexual Characters of Some Domestic by Hubert Dana Goodale (1916)
"... caponized ; second, hi each sex the comb and wattles are very large ; third,
the spurs appear in the males at a comparatively early age. ..."
4. Western Poultry Book by A. Basley (1912)
"I have personally caponized ... would be about the weight of June hatched chickens
of the American breeds which if caponized in September will be well grown ..."
5. Capons for Profit by Tuisco Greiner (1903)
"We give illustrations of some of the fine caponized birds that we saw there the
last of March, which will find their way to market as soft roasters, ..."
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