CAPON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capon mean? 

• CAPON (noun)
  The noun CAPON has 2 senses:

1. flesh of a castrated male chicken

2. castrated male chicken

  Familiarity information: CAPON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flesh of a castrated male chicken

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("capon" is a kind of...):

chicken; poulet; volaille (the flesh of a chicken used for food)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Castrated male chicken

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("capon" is a kind of...):

chicken; Gallus gallus (a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl)

Derivation:

caponise; caponize (convert a cock into a capon)

 Context examples 

A pair of cold capons, a mortress of brawn, or what you will, with a flask or two of the right Gascony.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)