poultry
poultry
Definition
poul·try (pōl′trē)
poultry
Synonyms
poultry
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- infect: Influenza A(H5N1 ) viruses normally circulate among wild birds but can infect poultry and rarely have infected people in the past.
- cook: Would the virus be killed by cooking poultry properly?
- eat: Can the virus be passed on through eating poultry or eggs?
- rear: They not only grew food, but also reared poultry, pigs, goats and even donkeys.
- affect: The disease particularly affects poultry, which includes chicken, duck, goose, turkey and guinea fowl.
- kill: My real concern is the blessed government over-reacting and running round killing domestic poultry when the disease is spread by wild birds.
Adjective modifier
- free-range: Also, free-range poultry keeping will become a ' thing of the past ' .
- undercooked: Do not eat uncooked or undercooked poultry or poultry products including food with uncooked poultry blood.
- infected: Almost all are thought to have caught the disease directly from infected poultry.
- diseased: To date, all evidence indicates that patients have acquired their infections following close contact with diseased poultry.
- frozen: Always follow the cooking instructions on ready stuffed fresh and frozen poultry.
- domestic: The worry was that wild birds - such as the swan - could spread the virus to domestic poultry flocks.
Modifies a noun
- keeper: With these partners we have issued leaflets and posters to poultry keepers on how they can protect their flocks.
- manure: A few shovels of manure, straw and poultry manure pellets thrown over the top will create extra warmth to speed up the process.
- meat: We are not aware of people handling poultry meat getting infected.
- slaughterhouse: Post mortem condemnation returns from poultry slaughterhouses in England and Wales.
- farming: Would we be facing a summer empty of birdsong after a cull of wild birds to protect poultry farming?
- breeder: But still at a price and simplicity to be attractive to the domestic poultry breeder, too.
Noun used with modifier
poultry Quotes
What's a thousand dollars? Mere chicken feed. A poultry matter.
An election is coming.Universal peace is declared, and thefoxeshavea sincere interest inprolonging thelives of the poultry.
I hate pudgy poultry.
Browse dictionary entries near poultry
- poultice
- poulterer
- poult
- Poulsen, Kevin
- Poulenc
- poule
- poulard
- Pouilly-Fumé
- Pouilly Fuissé
- pouf
- poultryman
- pounce
- pouncet box
- pound
- pound-foolish
- pound net
- pound sign
- poundage
- poundal
- poundcake
