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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farm fowl |
| Synonyms: | banty, barnyard fowl, biddy, capon, chick, cock, cock-a-doodle-do, cockalorum, cockerel, gump, heeler, hen, poultry, pullet, rooster |
| Main Entry: | rabbit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animal |
| Synonyms: | buck, bunny, capon, chinchilla, coney, cony, cottontail, cuniculus, doe, hare, lagomorph, lapin, rodent |
| Notes: | hares live in the open and bear young that have fur at birth, while rabbits live in burrows and bear young that are naked at birth; jackrabbits are hares, not rabbits when rabbit came into English, it only applied to the young of the animal, with the adult rabbit being called a cony |
| Main Entry: | fowl |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | domesticated bird |
| Synonyms: | bird, capon, chick, chicken, cock, duck, game, goose, hen, pheasant, rooster, turkey |
| Notes: | chickens, ducks, geese, pheasants, and turkey are fowl in the wild and poultry if domesticated |
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