gallus gallus

1. 1.

   a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

   Synonymschicken

   Broaderdomestic fowl

   Narrowerchickcockcaponhenspring chickenRhode Island redDominiqueOrpington

   Partschicken
2. 2.

   a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl

   Synonymsred jungle fowl

   Broaderjungle fowl

Questions about gallus gallus

What does gallus gallus mean?

gallus gallus means "a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for gallus gallus?

Close synonyms include chicken, red jungle fowl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gallus gallus a common word?

gallus gallus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.