- Cornish fowl
- nounEnglish breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters• Syn: ↑Cornish• Hypernyms: ↑domestic fowl, ↑fowl, ↑poultry
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Cornish fowl
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