Difference between Poultry and Chicken

What is the difference between Poultry and Chicken?

Poultry as a noun is domestic fowl (chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs) while Chicken as a noun is a domestic fowl, gallus gallus, especially when young

Poultry

Part of speech: noun

Definition: domestic fowl (chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs) the meat from a domestic fowl

Chicken

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: cowardly

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To avoid as a result of fear.To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when youngThe meat from this bird eaten as food.A coward.A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair.A young person of either sex.A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the loser.

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