Cochin fowl

Co´chin fowl`

(Zool.) A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from Cochin China (Anam).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Buff Cochin is defined in the OED as a 'variety of the Cochin fowl, in which both cock and hen ...'), inasmuch as the same information is read twice or thrice; in addition, there are plenty of cases of homonymy or polysemy (e.g.

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