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The virus is still circulating in U.S. dairy herds, poultry, wild birds and wild mammals.—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025 Both diets exclude meat and poultry, but pescatarians eat seafood and vegetarians do not.—Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 18 Apr. 2025 Most people can get creatine through food, such as meat, poultry, and seafood.—Mary Choy, Verywell Health, 18 Apr. 2025 In Los Angeles, egg, meat, poultry and fish prices rose the most, at 9.8%, followed by the D.C. metro area at 9.4%.—Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 17 Apr. 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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