Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gallus_gallus

2 senses of gallus gallus

Sense 1
chicken, Gallus gallus -- (a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl)
       => domestic fowl, fowl, poultry -- (a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl)

Sense 2
red jungle fowl, Gallus gallus -- (a jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl)
       => jungle fowl, gallina -- (small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl)