hen
(hen )
Word forms: hens
1. countable noun
A hen is a female chicken. People often keep hens in order to eat them or sell their eggs.
2. countable noun
The female of any bird can be referred to as a hen.
...ostrich hens.
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Collocations:
hen house
Give them a sturdy hen house and a run to protect them.
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And then, with blood pouring from the wounds he'd inflicted on himself, he scampered off to the hen house.
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He put them in the hen house.
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They also need protection from foxes at night, so invest in a hen house and secure fencing if they are allowed to roam free.
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One likened it to 'putting a fox in a hen house'.
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Translations:
Chinese: 母鸡
Japanese: めんどり
- cure
- cure a condition
- cure a defect
- cure a headache
- cure-all
- cure an ailment
- cure an ill
- cure an illness
- cure an infection
- cure a patient
- cure cancer
- cured ham
- cure diseases
- cure meat
- cure rate
- cure sickness
- cure the problem
- curfew
- curfew violation
- curio
- curio shop
- curiosity
- curiosity killed the cat
- curiosity killed the cat
- curiosity seeker