OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7951

hen

/hɛn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gallina
A female chicken (Gallus gallus), especially a sexually mature one kept for her eggs.
She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all t…
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