poultry
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- n a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
- n flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
- The dressed poultry industry has no connection whatever with the live poultry trade, and is a distinct and separate line of business.
- China developed an avian-influenza vaccine for poultry in 2005 and inoculates millions of birds annually.
- After culling 80,000 chickens and shutting down the poultry industry for 21 days, Hong Kong is facing its biggest bird flu outbreak in six years and the question of what to do .