nonchicken
adjEtymology From non- + chicken.
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Not of or pertaining to chickens or their meat.
- 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.1962, National poultry digest, Volume 21:
- The ovalbumin and conalbumin promoters did not function in chicken fibroblasts, kidney cells, and a number of nonchicken cells.1990, R D Crawford, Poultry breeding and genetics:
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- This was the case with some AI viruses isolated from nonchicken species.2008, Erica Spackman, Avian influenza virus: