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Birds that gave up flight for a steady paycheck of grain.
means Domesticated birds — chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese — raised for their eggs or meat.
from Poultry traces through French poulet and poule back to Latin pullus, meaning a young animal or chicken — the same root that gives us 'pullet' and 'foal.' It entered English in the medieval period via French-speaking cooks and traders, so the word for the bird on the table arrived, fittingly, through the kitchen rather than the farmyard.
- global flock
- Chickens outnumber humans roughly three to one.
- word cousin
- Pullet and poultry share the Latin word for foal.
- legal twist
- Rabbits are sold as poultry in some markets, despite being mammals.
- ancient job
- Egyptians were artificially incubating eggs over 3000 years ago.