noun. A male chicken castrated when young to improve the quality of its flesh for food.

noun. A castrated cock; a cock-chicken castrated for the purpose of improving the flesh for table.

noun. [So called, it is said, because letters were often conveyed inside of fowls. Cf. F. poulet, a fowl, also a love-letter, a billet-doux.] A letter.

To make a capon of; caponize.

noun. A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table.

transitive verb. To castrate; to make a capon of.

noun. A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.

verb. To castrate; to make a capon of.

noun. flesh of a castrated male chicken

noun. castrated male chicken

"The precipitous banks of red sandstone are richly clothed with vegetation, some of the trees ancient and very fine, especially the magnificent one called the capon tree, and the lofty king of the wood, remnants of the fine forests which at one time had covered the country."

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chicken  gallus gallus  poulet  volaille  

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