poultry
Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese) raised for food (meat, eggs, or both).
Other meanings
The meat from a domestic fowl.
Synonyms
- domestic fowl
- fowl
Kinds of poultry
- game fowl
- chicken
Related words
- nonpoultry
- poultrydom
- poultryhouse
- poultryist
- poultryless
- poultrylike
- poultry wire
- poultryman
- poultrywoman
Word history
From Latin "pullus" (chick).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “poultry” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; 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.