poultry

Eggs and meat

Poultry is domestic fowl raised for meat or eggs—chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese.

The word covers both the living birds and their flesh as food: a poultry farm, the poultry section of the grocery store.

Unlike beef or pork, the same word serves for animal and meat.

birds

chickens

Domestic fowl for eggs

quail · guinea fowl · pheasant · partridge · hen · rooster · fowl · bantams · capons · peafowl

farming

coop

Poultry enclosure

flock · free-range · barn · battery · organic · pasture-raised · backyard · commercial · hatchery · breeder

eggs

laying

Putting down horizontally

brooding · candling · fertilization · embryo · albumen · yolk · shell · oviposition · free-range · cage-free

meat

breast

Upper front torso

giblets · dark meat · white meat · carcass · roast · fried · grilled · rotisserie · barbecue · smoked

feed

grains

Small hard seeds

grit · oyster shell · corn · wheat · forage · supplements · vitamins · minerals · protein · calcium

Categories
Opposites
domestication status

poultrywild game

Hunted animals as food

game birds · wildfowl · venison · bushmeat · wild-caught

animal category for food

poultryred meat

Mammal flesh for eating

beef · pork · lamb · mutton · seafood

dietary classification

poultryplant protein

Nutrition from flora

legumes · tofu · vegetables · grains

Phrases
Family

poultice, poulterer, poultrymen

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G