red jungle fowl

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

   SynonymsGallus gallus

   Broaderjungle fowl

Questions about red jungle fowl

What does red jungle fowl mean?

red jungle fowl means "a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl".

What is another word for red jungle fowl?

Close synonyms include Gallus gallus. 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 red jungle fowl a common word?

red jungle fowl 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.