nonchicken

English

Etymology

non- +‎ chicken

Adjective

nonchicken (not comparable)

  1. Not of or pertaining to chickens or their meat.
    • 1962, National poultry digest, Volume 21:
      Psychological questioning showed that nearly two out of three housewives like to think of eggs in terms of food dishes or other nonchicken, nonfarm associations.
    • 1990, R D Crawford, Poultry breeding and genetics:
      The ovalbumin and conalbumin promoters did not function in chicken fibroblasts, kidney cells, and a number of nonchicken cells.
    • 2008, Erica Spackman, Avian influenza virus:
      This was the case with some AI viruses isolated from nonchicken species.
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