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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Poultry \Poul"try\, noun [From {Poult}.] Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
poultry
noun
1: a domesticated gallinaceous bird though to be descended from the red jungle fowl [syn: {domestic fowl}, {fowl}]
2: flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "poultry": Bantam, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, broiler, brooder, broody hen, capon, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hen, hen turkey, partlet, poulard, poult, pullet, roaster, rooster, setting hen, spring chicken, stewing chicken, tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock
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