Chicken

  • 11chicken — [n1] person afraid to try something coward, craven, dastard, funk, poltroon, quitter, recreant, scaredy cat*, yellow belly*; concept 423 chicken [n2] farm fowl banty, barnyard fowl, biddy, capon, chick, cock, cock a doodle do*, cockalorum,… …

    New thesaurus

  • 12chicken — см. Приложение 1 (Gallus domesticus). (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …

    Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • 13chicken — chicken. См. цыпленок. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …

    Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • 14Chicken — Gallus gallus domesticus redirects here. For other subspecies, see Red Junglefowl. Chooks redirects here. For the fast food chain, see Chooks Fresh Tasty. This article is about the animal. For chicken as human food, see Chicken (food). For other… …

    Wikipedia

  • 15chicken — chick|en1 [ tʃıkən ] noun ** 1. ) count a bird kept for its eggs and meat. The sound it makes is called clucking. The female chicken is called a hen and the male is called a rooster. A baby chicken is called a chick. a ) uncount the meat of a… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 16chicken — I UK [ˈtʃɪkɪn] / US [ˈtʃɪkən] noun Word forms chicken : singular chicken plural chickens ** 1) a) [countable] a bird kept for its eggs and meat. The sound it makes is called clucking. The female chicken is called a hen and the male is called a… …

    English dictionary

  • 17chicken — [[t]tʃɪ̱kɪn[/t]] ♦♦♦ chickens, chickening, chickened 1) N COUNT Chickens are birds which are kept on a farm for their eggs and for their meat. Lionel built a coop so that they could raise chickens and have a supply of fresh eggs. ...free range… …

    English dictionary

  • 18chicken — chick|en1 S2 [ˈtʃıkın] n [: Old English; Origin: cicen young chicken ] 1.) a common farm bird that is kept for its meat and eggs →↑hen, cock ↑cock, rooster ↑rooster, chick ↑chick 2.) [U] …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 19chicken — /chik euhn/, n. 1. a domestic fowl, Gallus domesticus, descended from various jungle fowl of southeastern Asia and developed in a number of breeds for its flesh, eggs, and feathers. 2. the young of this bird, esp. when less than a year old. 3.… …

    Universalium

  • 20chicken — 1 noun 1 BIRD (C) a common farm bird that is kept for its meat and eggs: He keeps chickens on his farm. see also: hen, cock 1 (1), rooster 2 MEAT (U) the meat from this bird eaten as food: roast chicken | fried chicken | chicken soup 3 SB WHO IS… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English