| 单词 | henny-feathered | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashenny-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. ΚΠ 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. 9/1  				‘Henny’ 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. < as lemmas | 
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