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View synonyms for poultry

poultry

[ pohl-tree ]

noun

  1. domesticated fowl collectively, especially those valued for their meat and eggs, as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl.


poultry

/ ˈpəʊltrɪ /

noun

  1. domestic fowls collectively


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  • poultry·less adjective
  • poultry·like adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of poultry1

1350–1400; Middle English pulletrie < Middle French pouleterie. See pullet, -ery

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Word History and Origins

Origin of poultry1

C14: from Old French pouletrie, from pouletier poultry-dealer

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Example Sentences

Same for driveway pavers and meat and poultry plant workers.

However, apart from the poultry, which is of the lowest FDA grade, soy protein plays a role in everything served.

I am sure that no one in a Gulag or Kanz-lager would have turned their nose up at some fresh poultry.

Include foods like soybeans, low-fat dairy, fish, meat and poultry, suggests Zied.

Most of the infections were found in people with direct exposure to poultry.

A part of the square is walled off and employed as a market for fish, fruit, vegetables, and poultry.

His poultry, equally with his horses, could have testified to the judicious attention which he bestowed upon them.

Even old Mrs. Stott had to kill her own poultry for the market though she'd strap him well for refusing.

Salads, and fish of various kinds, were dressed in a peculiar manner; poultry and other things in the French fashion.

They also know how to blow out and dress stale poultry, so as to make it look quite fresh and plump.

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