free-range chicken
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- noun
- /friː reɪndʒ ˈtʃɪkən/
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pollo de crianza libre
- Farmers who raise free-range chickens often allow them to roam outdoors in a natural environment.
- organic free-range chicken
- grilled free-range chicken
- eggs from free-range chickens
It's it's these are free range chickens.
- It's it's these are free range chickens.
Examples
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I mean, organic meat, fruits and vegetables, free-range chickens and their eggs.
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Or maybe he decides to build a chicken coop and raise free-range chickens that produce organic eggs.
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I'm going to put three free range chicken breasts in the water.
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We used to have free-range chickens.
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My parents also raise free-range chickens and have about 60.
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I couldn't find any free range chicken in your entire Tesco.
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Naturals - a small, free-range chicken and duck farm.
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My aunt and uncle had a free-range chicken farm in the Feather River area in NorCal in the 1950s and 60s.
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She had recently been made aware of egg carton labels describing the superior health of free-range chickens.
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Living in Iowa, we have some of the dirtiest water in the nation due to factory farms, yet I get a regular delivery of true grass-fed meat and eggs from happy free-range chickens.
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Antonyms
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A very large place where people keep many animals in small spaces to make meat, milk, or eggs
How Free
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a chicken raised with access to the outdoors' is directly and transparently composed from 'free-range' (allowed to roam and forage outdoors) + 'chicken' (domesticated fowl). This adjective + noun pattern is highly compositional and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The term free-range chicken gives the simple image of birds that are free to range, to walk and peck in open fields instead of being kept in cages. So it now means 'a chicken raised with access to the outdoors and a more natural life'.