Noun | 1. | ![]() Gallus gallus, chicken - a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl poultry - flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food broiler - flesh of a small young chicken not over 2 1/2 lb suitable for broiling capon - flesh of a castrated male chicken roaster - flesh of a large young chicken over 3 1/2 lb suitable for roasting spatchcock - flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed) hen - flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing white meat, breast - meat carved from the breast of a fowl chicken wing - the wing of a chicken |