pullet

• n. 鶏

古フランス語のpoule「小さな雌鳥」から、ラテン語のpullus「小さな動物、家禽」から、PIE*pulo「小さな動物」から、PIE*pau「小さい、少ない」から、語源的にはfew「子馬、仔馬」と同じ。

pullet

pullet: see poultry

pullet (n.)

late 14c., "young fowl" (late 13c. as a surname), from Anglo-French pullet, Old French poulette, poilette, diminutive of poule, poille "hen," from Vulgar Latin *pulla, fem. of Latin pullus "young animal," especially "young fowl" (source also of Spanish pollo "chicken," Italian pollo "fowl;" see foal (n.)). Technically, a young hen from the time she begins to lay until the first molt.

1. The little pullet pushed through the crowded henhouse over to the door.

小さな雌鶏は、混雑した鶏の群れを辛うじて通り過ぎて玄関まで歩いた。

2.That is to vaccinate a pulet flock at least twice for IBD.

これは、若い鶏に対して少なくとも2回IBD免疫を行うことです。

3.Better an egg today than a pulet .

今日の卵は、明日の小さな雌鶏に勝る卵だ。