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poultry (iou)



poultry noun. ME.
[Old French pouletrie formed as POULTER: see -RY.]
pl. (usu. collect., treated as sing. or pl.) Domestic fowl; birds commonly reared for meat, eggs, or feathers in a yard, barn, or other enclosure, as chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, or guinea-fowl (usu. excluding game-birds, as pigeons, pheasants, etc.). Also, such birds as a source of food. ME.
Daily Telegraph More than two million poultry have now been lost in the..fowl pest epidemic. Which? To eat more white meat (especially poultry) and fish in place of red meat.
A place where fowl are reared or sold for food. ME-L16.
The office or position of a poulter in a noble household. Cf. POULTER 2. LME-E17.
poultryless adjective L19.