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Cornish

Cornish

8.1
A British chicken breed with a broad body raised for meat
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔrnɪʃ/
translation icon : pollo Cornish
  • During the holiday, we often serve Cornish hens as a festive dish.
  • Cornish hens

Examples

  • The chef prepared delicious roast Cornish hens for the dinner party.

  • We raised several Cornish hens on our farm for their tender meat.

  • "Now 140 cornish hens don't have to die!"

    Mr. Saturday Night (1992)

Synonyms

Cornish fowl
vsCornish
7.0

A small heavy English chicken often crossed with other chickens to make meat birds

emphasizes direct meat production as a primary purpose rather than only crossbreeding

Compounds

Cornish pasty
1 5.7

A baked pastry from Cornwall filled with meat and vegetables, folded and pressed on one side

Cornish fowl
7.0

A small heavy English chicken often crossed with other chickens to make meat birds

Cornish heath
9.9

A small bush with pink or white flowers that grows on moors in Cornwall and southwest Europe

Cornish heritage
7.9

Traditions, culture, and family history from Cornwall and its people

Cornish language
9.7

A language from Cornwall that people spoke long ago and are learning again

Rock Cornish
  • US
6.7

A small plump chicken that people raise for meat

Rock Cornish hen
  • US
6.9

A small young chicken raised for eating, often roasted

How Tender

Cornish
8.1
chicken
586 1.0
hen
9 1.0

Surface Forms

Cornish singular
Cornishes plural

Morphology

Cornish = Cornwall (transparent) = Cornwall + ish

Breed name formed by the place-name plus '-ish' indicating origin; the relation to Cornwall is direct even if the breed is a lexicalized name.

Etymology

Cornish for the chicken breed comes from the county Cornwall and the ending -ish meaning 'from', showing where the bird came from. So a Cornish chicken is literally a type of bird 'from Cornwall' known for its meat.