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pullets

/pool-it/US // ˈpʊl ɪt //UK // (ˈpʊlɪt) //

小鸡,小母鸡,小鸡仔,小鸡鸡

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a young hen, less than one year old.

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Examples

  • And as they entered with the pullet, Chicot cut off a leg and thigh, which Gorenflot soon despatched.

  • Although my appetite was quite gone, I resolved to force down as much as I could; and desired the leg of a pullet.

  • The fowls—a game rooster, a buff hen and a speckled pullet—hung in wicker baskets from wooden pegs at the back.

  • In order to test its supposed poisonous property, he caused a young one to bite a pullet under the wing.

  • When a pullet is ready to lay she intimates the event by a joyous and easy soft note.