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Game fowl   Listen
noun
Game fowl  n.  (Zool.) A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... original variation, but such events are of extreme rarity, and no such case has come under the notice of an experimenter in modern times, as far as I am aware. That they must have appeared is clear enough. Nothing corresponding to the Brown-breasted Game fowl is known wild, yet that colour is a most definite dominant, and at some moment since Gallus bankiva was domesticated, the element on which that special colour depends must have at least once been formed in the germ-cell ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



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