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junglefowl

noun

Etymology

From jungle + fowl.

  1. inherited from *fuglaz✻
  2. inherited from *fugl✻
  3. inherited from fugol — “bird”
  4. inherited from foul
  5. compounded as junglefowl — “jungle + fowl”

Definitions

  1. Any of four semiflightless, gallinaceous game birds of the genus Gallus, native to…

    Any of four semiflightless, gallinaceous game birds of the genus Gallus, native to southeast Asia, including the red junglefowl or domestic chicken.

    • The red junglefowl is said to be the original “chicken” from which all domestic chickens are descended, based on comments and observations made by Darwin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at junglefowl. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at junglefowl. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at junglefowl

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA