ROOSTER
Dictionary entry overview: What does rooster mean? • ROOSTER (noun)
The noun ROOSTER has 1 sense:
1. adult male chicken
Familiarity information: ROOSTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ROOSTER (noun)
Meaning:
Adult male chicken
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
rooster; cock
Hypernyms ("rooster" is a kind of...):
chicken; Gallus gallus (a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl)
Meronyms (parts of "rooster"):
comb (a fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rooster"):
cockerel (a young domestic cock; not older than one year)
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