red jungle fowl

red jungle fowl

noun
See under jungle fowl.
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jungle fowl

noun
any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.

Origin:
1815–25
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red jungle fowl

noun
a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl 
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