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nonchicken en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + chicken.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not of or pertaining to chickens or their meat.
    • Psychological questioning showed that nearly two out of three housewives like to think of eggs in terms of food dishes or other nonchicken, nonfarm associations. 1962, National poultry digest, Volume 21:
    • This was the case with some AI viruses isolated from nonchicken species. 2008, Erica Spackman, Avian influenza virus:
    • The ovalbumin and conalbumin promoters did not function in chicken fibroblasts, kidney cells, and a number of nonchicken cells. 1990, R D Crawford, Poultry breeding and genetics: