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CORNISH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters

Synonyms:

Cornish; Cornish fowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Cornish" is a kind of...):

domestic fowl; fowl; poultry (a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Celtic language spoken in Cornwall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Cornish" is a kind of...):

Brittanic; Brythonic (a southern group of Celtic languages)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or related to Cornwall or its people or the Cornish language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Cornwall (a hilly county in southwestern England)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It was, then, with considerable surprise that I received a telegram from Holmes last Tuesday—he has never been known to write where a telegram would serve—in the following terms: Why not tell them of the Cornish horror—strangest case I have handled.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will excuse this informal reception in the open air, but my friend Watson and I have nearly furnished an additional chapter to what the papers call the Cornish Horror, and we prefer a clear atmosphere for the present.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The ancient Cornish language had also arrested his attention, and he had, I remember, conceived the idea that it was akin to the Chaldean, and had been largely derived from the Phœnician traders in tin.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now, my dear Watson, I think we may dismiss the matter from our mind and go back with a clear conscience to the study of those Chaldean roots which are surely to be traced in the Cornish branch of the great Celtic speech.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)