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Pullet meaning
A young hen, especially one less than a year old. | A spineless person; a coward. | A girl or young woman.
Example sentences (5)
Many — including Diane Wan, 72 — immediately recognized Stoltzfoos, and left with everything from pickled okra, pork roll, and asparagus to shoofly pies, pumpkin bread, and GMO-free duck and pullet eggs.
Genetic analysis showed that the cancer cells found in the golden carpet shell clams, above, originated from another species called the pullet carpet shell.
Zawe boss said sexed pullet production (layer day-old chicks) averaged 253 641 per month in third quarter, an increase of 29% on prior figures.
Females over a year old are known as hens and younger females as pullets citation although in the egg-laying industry, a pullet becomes a hen when she begins to lay eggs at 16 to 20 weeks of age.
The word "pullet" itself comes from Middle English pulet, from Old French polet, both from Latin pullus, a young fowl, young animal or chicken. citation citation The word "fowl" is of Germanic origin (cf.