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bread |
When you bread chicken or some other meat, you cover it completely with very small crumbs before you cook it. [1/2 definitions] |
burger |
a sandwich like a beef burger but made with a patty of some other kind of food, such as chicken, fish, or beans. The patty itself is also called a burger. [1/2 definitions] |
chick |
a bird that has just hatched or a young bird, especially a young chicken. |
chicken |
a common farm bird that is raised for its meat and eggs. [3 definitions] |
chicken pox |
When you have chicken pox, you are sick. It is a disease that gives you a fever and spots on your body. The fever lasts a few days, but the spots take longer to go away, and they itch. Children get chicken pox more often than adults do. |
cock1 |
an adult male chicken or the male of other closely related birds, such as turkeys or pheasants; rooster. [1/3 definitions] |
cook |
When you cook food, you make it ready to eat by making it hot. When you boil an egg, fry a chicken, or bake a potato, you are cooking food. [1/4 definitions] |
disease |
A disease is something wrong in your body that makes you sick or causes damage to some part of your body. Some diseases can make you sick just for a short time, but other diseases are very serious. Chicken pox and influenza are two kinds of diseases. Diseases are often caused by bacteria and viruses. |
dislike |
Dislike is a strong feeling of not liking something. If you have a dislike for chicken, then you never want to eat it. If you feel dislike for someone, you don't want to be friends with them. [1/2 definitions] |
dress |
When a cook dresses something like a turkey or chicken, it means that they prepare the meat for cooking. Often they add things to it like butter and herbs. [1/6 definitions] |
fowl |
a bird such as a chicken that is raised for its eggs or meat. Ducks, geese, and turkeys are also domestic fowl. [1/2 definitions] |
hen |
an adult female chicken or the female of other closely related birds, such as turkeys, pheasants, and peacocks. |
kiwi |
A kiwi is a bird with gray and brown feathers, a long beak, and short legs. It has wings, but they are small and weak, so the kiwi cannot fly. The kiwi is not a small bird. It is around the size of a chicken. [1/2 definitions] |
layer |
a chicken that lays eggs. [1/3 definitions] |
meat |
Meat is a kind of food that comes from animals. Foods like chicken, beef, and pork are meat. [1/2 definitions] |
poultry |
Poultry is what we call meat that comes from birds. When we eat chicken or turkey, we are eating poultry. We also use the word "poultry" to talk about the birds themselves that people raise for food. |
produce |
When an animal produces something, they bring it into the world as a completely new thing. When a chicken produces eggs, it brings eggs into the world. [1/5 definitions] |
quail1 |
a bird related to the chicken that lives on the ground and is often hunted for sport and food. |
rooster |
an adult male chicken or the male of another closely related bird, such as the pheasant; cock. |
salad |
a similar mixture made with meat, chicken, seafood, or fruit. [1/2 definitions] |
whooping cough |
Whooping cough is a serious disease. When children get it, they can become very sick. Some children even die from whooping cough. Children with the disease have a terrible cough that makes it hard to breathe. Sometimes with the coughing, there is a noise when the child breathes in that sounds almost like the sound a chicken makes. Whooping cough is caused by a kind of bacteria, and it can easily spread from one person to another. Adults can get whooping cough, but usually they get only a mild case. Another name for whooping cough is "pertussis." |
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