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legkip — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • hen noun An adult female chicken, especially one kept for laying eggs.

Senses

legkip is used for these senses in English:

  • hen A female chicken (Gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for her eggs.
  • hen A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.
  • laying hen A hen raised for egg production, as opposed to a parent flock hen, raised to produce chicks.

hen — full definition

  1. noun An adult female chicken, especially one kept for laying eggs.
  2. noun An adult female of various other bird species.
  3. noun A casual, often affectionate term for a woman, especially in British and Scottish speech.

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