jungle cock

English

Noun

jungle cock (plural jungle cocks)

  1. Synonym of junglefowl.
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 299:
      The common jungle-cock of India (Gallus bankiva) was found here, and furnished us with some excellent meals; but we could get no deer.
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