poultry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
    fowl; domestic fowl.
  2. noun flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

WordNet

Poul"try noun
Etymology
From Poult.
Definitions
  1. Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

Webster 1913