poultry

Related topics: Agriculture, Food

1. [plural]TA birds such as chickens and ducks that are kept on farms in order to produce eggs and meat 家禽

2. [uncountableU]DF meat from birds such as chickens and ducks 家禽肉

Examples from the Corpus

poultry• a poultry farmer• First, the meat and poultry component and all other ingredients must have been inspected for wholesomeness.• Seated, district poultry manager; senior sales specialist; game feed manager and poultry district manager.• From left, standing, business manager; sales specialist; senior sales specialist; district poultry manager.• Frozen poultry may be cooked with or without thawing, but commercially frozen stuffed poultry should be cooked without thawing.• Have poultry once or twice a week. 5.• Tightly wrap or store in covered containers all cooked meat, poultry, and fish and shellfish and refrigerate them promptly.• Sweets, eggs or poultry, would also be considered a treat, and appear only once a week.• Animals might mature faster: a pressurised poultry house, for example, could hurry chickens to earlier adulthood.

Origin poultry

(1300-1400) Old French pouleterie, from polet “young chicken”

Chinese

Syllable

Corpus

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 9788 COCA: 7625

poultry

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + POULTRY | POULTRY + NOUN

ADJECTIVE

➤free-range

(especially BrE)

散養的家禽

➤domestic家禽

VERB + POULTRY

➤keep, raise

(NAmE)

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◇He keeps / raises rabbits and poultry.他飼養兔子和家禽。

◇They keep / raise poultry on the farm.他們在農場裏飼養家禽。

POULTRY + NOUN

➤farm, farming, industry家禽飼養農場；家禽飼養；家禽飼養業

▸➤dish用家禽做的菜肴

◇a wine that goes well with fish and poultry dishes一種適宜在吃魚和家禽時飲用的葡萄酒

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 9788 COCA: 7625

poultry

Types of meat: bacon, beef, bushmeat...