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ORPINGTON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Orpington mean?
• ORPINGTON (noun)
The noun ORPINGTON has 1 sense:
1. English breed of large chickens with white skin
Familiarity information: ORPINGTON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
English breed of large chickens with white skin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("Orpington" 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)
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