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domestic fowl, fowl, poultry
a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
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gallina, jungle fowl
small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl
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Agriocharis ocellata, ocellated turkey
wild turkey of Central America and northern South America
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guan
any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food
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curassow
large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food
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chachalaca
slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds
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megapode, mound bird, mound builder, mound-bird, scrub fowl
large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
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Opisthocomus hoazin, hoactzin, hoatzin, stinkbird
crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings
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columbiform bird
a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes
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game bird
any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport
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Dorking
an English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled)
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Plymouth Rock
an American breed of domestic fowl
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Cornish, Cornish fowl
English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters
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Rock Cornish
small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl
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game fowl
any of several breeds reared for cockfighting
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cochin, cochin china
Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs
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jungle cock
male jungle fowl
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jungle hen
female jungle fowl
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Gallus gallus, red jungle fowl
a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl
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Gallus gallus, chicken
a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
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bantam
any of various small breeds of fowl
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Meleagris gallopavo, turkey
large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
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grouse
popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet
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piping guan
a kind of guan
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Ortilis vetula macalli, Texas chachalaca
of Mexico and Texas
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Leipoa ocellata, leipoa, lowan, mallee fowl
Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds
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Alectura lathami, brush turkey
black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
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Macrocephalon maleo, maleo
Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches
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phasianid
a kind of game bird in the family Phasianidae
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Numida meleagris, guinea, guinea fowl
a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world
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partridge, tinamou
heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds
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Raphus cucullatus, dodo
extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons
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Pezophaps solitaria, solitaire
extinct flightless bird related to the dodo
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pigeon
wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
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sand grouse, sandgrouse
pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young
