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单词 henny-feathered
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henny-feathered
1. Of a male bird, esp. a domestic chicken: having the plumage or general appearance of a hen or female bird; (of plumage) resembling that of a hen or female; henlike. Also: designating a breed or variety characterized by such males. Also as the first element in compound adjectives, as in henny-feathered.
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1853 W. Wingfield & G. W. Johnson Poultry Bk. xvii. 202 The ‘henny’ cockerels, moreover, reproduced in comparatively few instances their sire's peculiarities in these points.
1854 Poultry Chron. 9 Aug. 549/1 The time when ‘none but’ the henny-tailed cocks are ‘to be judged’ is far more remote than is opined by your correspondent.
1873 E. James Game Cock (ed. 2) 66 The Henny strain never breeds a long-tailed cock unless crossed.
1898 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Feb. 9/1Henny’ cocks..have won more battles..than any other birds, except it be the ‘tassel’ cock.
1927 F. A. E. Crew Genetics Sexuality in Animals iv. 115 After a moult the plumage would have become completely henny.
1986 Vitamins & Hormones 43 180 Castration of henny-feathered chickens of either sex caused henny feathering to revert to male-type plumage.
extracted from hennyn.adj.
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