different between poultry vs leghorn

English

Etymology

From Middle English pultrie, from Old French pouleterie, from poulet, diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pullus (“chick”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?lt?i/, /?p??lt?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?po?lt?i/

Noun

poultry (usually uncountable, plural poultries)

1. Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese) raised for food (either meat or eggs).
2. The meat from a domestic fowl.

Derived terms

• poultryman
• poultrywoman

Related terms

• poult
• poulter
• poulterer
• pullet

Translations

Further reading

• poultry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• poultry farming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• Leghorn (chicken breed)

Etymology

Mid 18th century: from Leghorn (“Livorno”), the place the straw and fowls were imported from.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??h??n/, /l?????n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l??h??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Noun

leghorn (countable and uncountable, plural leghorns)

1. (uncountable) A type of dried plaited wheat straw fabric.
2. (countable) Designating a type of hat made from Leghorn straw.
   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 65:

     When straw-hats had become unfashionable, Mrs. Nollekens hinted to old White, the hatter […] , that possibly he could accommodate her with a Leghorn hat at a moderate rate.

3. (countable) A small white chicken of a hardy breed.

Translations

Anagrams

• Herlong

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English leghorn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?x.??rn/
• Hyphenation: leg?horn

Noun

leghorn m (plural leghorns)

1. leghorn, breed of chicken from Livorno