barnyard fowl
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The New York Mets — after reliever Frank Francisco called the rival Yankees "chickens" — have brought in a live barnyard fowl as a clubhouse pet, so now it's time to give it a name.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2012
Looking elegantly tuxedoed on their sold-out tours of Europe and the U.S., they spiked their tight harmonies with expert, deadpan vocal clowning; they could imitate band instruments and barnyard fowl.
From Time Magazine Archive
Immediately everybody shuns him because ferrets are believed to massacre barnyard fowl.
From Time Magazine Archive
Red jungle fowl from India passed Royal muster as "a species believed to be direct descendants of the ancestors of all barnyard fowl."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was in this instance as though hereditary traits had been thwarted; as though two sober barnyard fowl had mated to bear a golden pheasant.
From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
