chicken
A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
Other meanings
The meat from this bird eaten as food.
The young of any bird; a chick.
A kind of
- poultry
Kinds of chicken
- hen
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "ċicen".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “chicken” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.