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Deba Short, thick and weighty, Deba is designed for descaling and deboning fish, but also handy for poultry.—Akiko Katayama, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025 Evidence suggests that about 75% of Americans meet or exceed the protein intake recommendation for meats, poultry, and eggs.—Jonathan Purtell, Verywell Health, 13 June 2025 Food: Cereals and bakery products were down 2%; dairy, down 1.2%; fruits and vegetables, up 2.4%; and meats, poultry, fish and eggs were up 3.3%.—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2025 Even an insurance agent couldn’t figure out how to safeguard his vegetable and poultry farm against unpredictable weather and plain old bad luck.—Chicago Tribune, 9 June 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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