NOUN
- a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
How To Use domestic fowl In A Sentence
- Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
- The behavioral sequence leading to a copulation has been extensively described in the domestic fowl.
- In addition, my family included nine dogs, about 40 ducks and domestic fowls, eight geese, a Bornean deer that weighed about 150 pounds, and two long-armed apes.
- 1893 OsW 1862-1893 OsW galline domestic fowl ralline rail 1885-1892 VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
- An experimental study in the domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticus) found that paternity success varied across females, which were inseminated with equal numbers of sperm from two males.
- A L Basham lists India's contribution to World: rice, cotton, sugar cane, many spices, domestic fowl, game of chess etc.
- The domestic fowl is descended from the red junglefowl of south-east Asia and has been domesticated for 6 000 to 8 000 years.
- Red Jungle Fowl are the progenitors of the bewildering variety of domestic fowl.
- These birds also express high levels of a bacteriolytic lysozyme which is more similar in amino acid sequence to the rock pigeon than that of the domestic fowl.
- The latest case in Guangdong Province killed 114 domestic fowl culling of another 518.