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Plymouth Rock1 definition

☆ Plymouth Rock

any of a breed of domestic chicken with white or gray, barred plumage: formerly raised esp. for its eggs and meat, now usually kept for crossbreeding

Etymology: after Plymouth Rock

Plymouth Rock2 definition

Plymouth Rock

boulder at Plymouth, Mass., where the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have landed in 1620

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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