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GALLINA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gallina mean?
• GALLINA (noun)
The noun GALLINA has 1 sense:
1. small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl
Familiarity information: GALLINA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
gallina; jungle fowl
Hypernyms ("gallina" is a kind of...):
gallinacean; gallinaceous bird (heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gallina"):
jungle cock (male jungle fowl)
jungle hen (female jungle fowl)
Gallus gallus; red jungle fowl (a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl)
Holonyms ("gallina" is a member of...):
Gallus; genus Gallus (common domestic birds and related forms)
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