guinea hen

1. 1.

   flesh of a guinea fowl (especially of hens)

   Broaderpoultry

   Part ofguinea fowl
2. 2.

   female guinea fowl

   Broaderguinea fowl

Questions about guinea hen

What does guinea hen mean?

guinea hen means "flesh of a guinea fowl (especially of hens)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is guinea hen a common word?

guinea hen 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.