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Liver Liver is an organ meat that contains more saturated fat than poultry or fish.—Merve Ceylan, Health, 14 Oct. 2025 Still, among poultry purveyors, Cane’s will be fashionably late to the party in the Boise area.—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 14 Oct. 2025 Zinc Zinc is an important mineral found in certain kinds of seafood, red meat, poultry, and dairy products.—Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 10 Oct. 2025 In addition, dietary tryptophan – an amino acid found in foods such as poultry, eggs, tofu and seeds – is metabolized into compounds that activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, further boosting Treg cell activity and protecting against gut inflammation.—Mitzi Nagarkatti, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for poultry
Word History
Etymology
Middle English pultrie, from Anglo-French pulletrie, from pulleter poulterer, from pullet chicken — more at pullet
Middle English pultrie "fowl raised for food," from early French pulletrie (same meaning), from pulleter "one who raises poultry," from pullet "chicken" — related to pullet
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