| 单词 | hen |
| 释义 | hen (once / 388 pages) n A hen is a female chicken. It's important to make sure your new backyard chickens are hens and not roosters — otherwise, those eggs you're looking forward to just aren't going to happen. You can use the word hen for the female of many birds, including turkeys, pheasants, and quail, as well as for a female lobster. In parts of Britain, a hen can also be a (slightly offensive) slang term for a woman, and if something's described as being "rare as hen's teeth," it's extremely precious or scarce. WORD FAMILYhen: hens USAGE EXAMPLESHens recalls ruefully that she did not try to shield her sons from their brutal father. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) “You don’t want to put the fox in charge of the hen house,” said Robert Ambrogi, of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) The average number of laying hens on hand in October was roughly 53 million, up 55 percent from last year. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1n adult female chicken Syn|Hypo|Hyper biddy cackler a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen, sittera domestic hen ready to brood mother hena hen with chicks layera hen that lays eggs pulletyoung hen usually less than a year old Gallus gallus, chicken a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl 2n adult female bird Hyper bird warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings 3n female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster Hyper female an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) 4n flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing Hyper chicken, poulet, volaille the flesh of a chicken used for food |
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