Poultry \Poul"try\, n. [From Poult.]
   Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or
   feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and
   geese.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	poultry
    n 1: a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended
         from the red jungle fowl [syn: domestic fowl, fowl,
         poultry]
    2: flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for
       food

	

	47 Moby Thesaurus words for "poultry":
   Bantam, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, broiler,
   brooder, broody hen, capon, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy,
   chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, domestic fowl, drake, duck,
   duckling, dunghill fowl, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler,
   goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hen,
   hen turkey, partlet, poulard, poult, pullet, roaster, rooster,
   setting hen, spring chicken, stewing chicken, tom, tom turkey,
   turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock