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GENUS GALLUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

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Meaning:

Common domestic birds and related forms

Synonyms:

Gallus; genus Gallus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Gallus" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "genus Gallus"):

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

gallina; jungle fowl (small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl)

Holonyms ("genus Gallus" is a member of...):

family Phasianidae; Phasianidae (pheasants; quails; partridges)

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