poult
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9.2
- noun
- /poʊlt/
- Specialized
:
pichón
- About that time, my father, always resourceful, signed a contract with Maple Crest Turkey Farms to secure ten thousand poults.
- turkey poult
Examples
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Here, physiologist Annie Donoghue gives a combination of these bacteria to a turkey poult to test their efficacy in the live bird.
Academic text (2004) -
PHOTO (COLOR): Memo Tellez adds a probiotic culture to the drinking water of turkey poults.
Academic text (2004) -
It was the Poults Show from there on in, and it was just a joy to watch.
Blog text (1) -
"When turkeys are very young, they're known as 'poults.'
Blog text (10) -
It takes about 28 days for a turkey egg to hatch, although all you'll end up with in the end is a little bird (poult) -- not an "undead" turkey ready to gorge on your brains.
Blog text (10) -
What got him through the days of tending to smelly poults was that he'd secretly subscribed to a correspondence course, using the mailbox of an "English" neighbor up the road.
Fiction book (2002) -
Bacteria are fed to newly hatched poults, and these bacteria occupy sites in the intestinal tract that would be optimal for pathogen attachment and colonization.
Academic text (2004) -
3. Turkeys go by several different names: adult males are known as "toms," females are "hens," adolescent turkeys are "jakes," and baby turkeys are "poults."
Blog text (20) -
The farmer checked on the young poults to ensure they were healthy and growing well.
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After hatching, the poults followed their mother around the farm, learning to peck at the ground.
Synonyms
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3.5
A very young animal that has just come out of its egg, like a bird or turtle
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1.0
A very young bird without enough feathers to fly or leave the nest
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5.6
A young bird that cannot fly and stays in the nest
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1.2
A baby bird that is not yet an adult
A very young chicken
A small young chicken often served as food
A young bird like a parrot or guinea fowl
How Young
Surface Forms
Etymology
Poult comes from an old Latin word pullus meaning 'young animal' and shares the same root as poultry and pullet, familiar words for birds. So a poult is simply a young farm bird, like a baby chicken or turkey.