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nonchicken

nonchicken adjective: not of or pertaining to chickens or their meat.

Adjective

nonchicken (not comparable)

  1. 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

Origin of nonchicken

From non- + chicken.

Questions about nonchicken

What does nonchicken mean?
Nonchicken means not of or pertaining to chickens or their meat.
What part of speech is nonchicken?
Nonchicken is an adjective.

Words near nonchicken in the dictionary

  1. nonchemotherapy
  2. nonchess
  3. nonchewer
  4. nonchewers
  5. nonchewing
  6. nonchicken
  7. nonchild
  8. nonchildbearing
  9. nonchildlike
  10. nonchildren
  11. nonchilled

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