jungle hen

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   female jungle fowl

   Broaderjungle fowl

Questions about jungle hen

What does jungle hen mean?

jungle hen means "female jungle fowl".

Is jungle hen a common word?

jungle hen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.