hen

noun

/hen/

a female chicken, often kept for its eggs or meat母鸡
- a small flock of laying hens一小群下蛋的母鸡
- battery hens层架式鸡笼饲养的母鸡
Extra Examples
- I could hear the hens clucking in the farmyard.我能听到母鸡在农场院子里咯咯叫。
- My hens have stopped laying.我的母鸡已经不下蛋了。
- The hen laid three beautiful speckled eggs.母鸡下了 3 枚蛋壳上有小斑点的漂亮鸡蛋。
- The hens pecked hopefully at the dusty floor.几只母鸡啄着满是尘土的地面觅食。
Topics Birdsc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- battery
- free-range
- mother
- …
verb + hen
- keep
hen + verb
- lay
- lay eggs
- cluck
- …
hen + noun
- coop
- house
(especially in compounds) any female bird雌禽
- a hen pheasant雌雉
compare cock see also moorhenTopics Birdsc2

Word OriginOld English henn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hen and German Henne.

单词	hen
释义	hen noun /hen/ /hen/ a female chicken, often kept for its eggs or meat母鸡 a small flock of laying hens一小群下蛋的母鸡 battery hens层架式鸡笼饲养的母鸡 Extra Examples I could hear the hens clucking in the farmyard.我能听到母鸡在农场院子里咯咯叫。 My hens have stopped laying.我的母鸡已经不下蛋了。 The hen laid three beautiful speckled eggs.母鸡下了 3 枚蛋壳上有小斑点的漂亮鸡蛋。 The hens pecked hopefully at the dusty floor.几只母鸡啄着满是尘土的地面觅食。 Topics Birdsc2 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective battery free-range mother … verb + hen keep hen + verb lay lay eggs cluck … hen + noun coop house (especially in compounds) any female bird雌禽 a hen pheasant雌雉 compare cock see also moorhenTopics Birdsc2 Word OriginOld English henn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hen and German Henne. see also mother hen
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