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Poultry
Poultry is a category of domestic birds kept and raised for the purpose of collecting eggs or killing and using their meat.
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chick tooth
Meat products; Poultry
A tiny, sharp, horny projection on the end of the chick's upper beak used by the chick to peck holes in the shell. Also known as egg tooth.
chicken
Meat products; Poultry
A member of the Pheasant family, chickens probably descended from the Jungle Fowl of Ceylon. Chickens have been domesticated for thousands of years and have been developed into many different breeds ...
chook
Meat products; Poultry
Australian term for a hen, also applied to all chickens. (rhymes with "book")
chorion
Meat products; Poultry
A membrane that surrounds both the yolk sac and the amnion; it has no apparent initial function but later fuses with the allantois to form the chorio- allantois membrane.
