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Jungle fowl   /dʒˈəŋgəl faʊl/   Listen
noun
Jungle  n.  
1.
A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. "The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate."
2.
Hence: (Fig.) A place of danger or ruthless competition for survival. /'bdIt's a jungle out there./'b8
3.
Anything which causes confusion or difficulty due to intricacy; as, a jungle of environmental regulations.
Jungle bear (Zool.), the aswail or sloth bear.
Jungle cat (Zool.), the chaus.
Jungle cock (Zool.), the male of a jungle fowl.
Jungle fowl. (Zool.)
(a)
Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl (Gallus varius) of Java, Gallus Stanleyi of Ceylon, and Gallus Bankiva of India. Note: The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is supposed to be one of the original species from which the domestic fowl was derived.
(b)
An Australian grallatorial bird (Megapodius tumulus) which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter, where they are hatched by the heat produced by decomposition.






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"Jungle fowl" Quotes from Famous Books



... stock from which the domesticated forms have been produced. All the varied forms of dogs—from mastiff to toy-terrier, and from greyhound to dachshund and bulldog—find their prototypes in wild carnivora like the wolf and jackal. In Asia and Malaysia the jungle fowl still lives, while its domesticated descendants have altered under human direction to become the diverse strains of the barnyard, and even the peculiar Japanese product with tail feathers sometimes as long as twenty feet. That far-reaching changes can be brought about in a ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton

... party went out to shoot any thing that came in their way. Their success, however, was limited to a pig, and a brace of jungle fowl. Some of the party saw tracks of tigers, but they attack nobody during the day; the night being their time for retaliation. Another division of their party coming home by a straight course across the country, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. • Various

... the party went out to shoot any thing that came in their way. Their success, however, was limited to a pig, and a brace of jungle fowl. Some of the party saw tracks of tigers, but they attack nobody during the day; the night being their time for retaliation. Another division of their party coming home by a straight course across the country, and just before it got dark, found themselves on the borders of a district which ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. • Various



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