GALLUS GALLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gallus gallus mean? 

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

1. a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

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

  Familiarity information: GALLUS GALLUS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALLUS GALLUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chicken; Gallus gallus

Hypernyms ("Gallus gallus" is a kind of...):

domestic fowl; fowl; poultry (a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl)

Meronyms (parts of "Gallus gallus"):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Gallus gallus"):

biddy; chick (young bird especially of domestic fowl)

cock; rooster (adult male chicken)

capon (castrated male chicken)

biddy; hen (adult female chicken)

spring chicken (a young chicken having tender meat)

Rhode Island red (American breed of heavy-bodied brownish-red general-purpose chicken)

Dominick; Dominique (American breed of chicken having barred grey plumage raised for meat and brown eggs)

Orpington (English breed of large chickens with white skin)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Gallus gallus; red jungle fowl

Hypernyms ("Gallus gallus" is a kind of...):

gallina; jungle fowl (small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl)

 Context examples 

The common domestic fowl, Gallus gallus.

(Chicken, NCI Thesaurus)