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nounsmall Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl
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- turkey large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
- comb the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- quail small gallinaceous game birds
- poultry a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
- partridge small Old World gallinaceous game birds
- partridge heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds
- pheasant large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere
- fowl a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
- cockscomb the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- coxcomb the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds