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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Animal Population Groups > Animals, Domestic > Poultry > Chickens
Food and Beverages > Food > Meat > Poultry > Chickens
... > Physiological Phenomena > Diet, Food, and Nutrition > Food > Meat > Poultry > Chickens
... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Birds > Poultry > Chickens
... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Birds > Galliformes > Chickens

Preferred term

Chickens  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Gallus domesticus
  • Gallus gallus
  • Gallus gallus domesticus

Note

  • diseases: coord IM with POULTRY DISEASES (IM); canned chicken: coord IM with FOOD PRESERVATION

Scope note

  • Common name for the species Gallus gallus, the domestic fowl, in the family Phasianidae, order GALLIFORMES. It is descended from the red jungle fowl of SOUTHEAST ASIA.

History note

  • 68

In other languages

  • kanat

    Finnish

  • broileri
  • broilerit
  • kana
  • kananpoika
  • kananpojat
  • Kycklingar

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002645

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