Definition of Chickens. Meaning of Chickens. Synonyms of Chickens

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Definition of Chickens

Chicken
Chicken Chick"en, n. [AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken, k["u]ken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G. k["u]chkein. See Cock the animal.] 1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. 2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. ``Stella is no chicken.' --Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

Meaning of Chickens from wikipedia

- references to chickens in folklore, religion, and literature. Terms for chickens include: Biddy: a chicken, or a newly hatched chicken Capon: a castrated...
- domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food. Poultrymostly chickens – are farmed in great numbers...
- less-developed areas raise chickens using more traditional farming techniques. The United Nations estimates there to be 19 billion chickens on Earth in 2011, making...
- Joe Stephenson Chickens (1916 film), a film starring Oliver Hardy Chickens (1921 film), an American silent comedy drama film The Chicken (film), a 1965...
- broiler-fryer is also used sometimes to refer specifically to younger chickens under 2.0 kilograms (4+1⁄2 lb), as compared with the larger roasters. Due...
- stems from the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens. "Chicken-and-egg" is a metaphoric adjective describing...
- Tweedy's chicken pies and returns to the farm out of guilt. Mrs Tweedy orders Mr Tweedy to gather all the chickens for the machine, but the chickens subdue...
- whole chickens in grocery stores. Two explanations are often given to justify this phenomenon. First, some grocery stores may use rotisserie chickens as...
- chickens in Southeast Asia well before 6000 BC, China by 6000 BC and India by 2000 BC. A landmark 2020 Nature study that fully sequenced 863 chickens...
- as pets Dwarfism in chickens "Online Etymology Dictionary". Etymonline.com. Retrieved 2012-08-13. Media related to Bantam chicken breeds at Wikimedia...