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noun pəʊltpoʊlt Farming A young domestic chicken, turkey, pheasant, or other fowl being raised for food. 〔农〕（养来食用的）幼禽，雏禽 Example sentencesExamples - It's early August, and he checks to make sure his 34 turkey poults are kept warm until they are ready for pasture in eight weeks.
- The females and their broods can all associate with each other, so there may be multiple hens with poults (young turkeys) in a group.
- She wasn't about to disturb the eight crow-size poults that lurked in the leaf litter behind their protective mother.
- Adult chickens and chicks are more likely to eat the beetles and their larvae than poults or turkeys.
- Bacteria are fed to newly hatched poults and these bacteria occupy sites in the intestinal tract that would be optimal for pathogen attachment and colonization.
OriginLate Middle English: contraction of pullet. Rhymesbolt, colt, dolt, holt, jolt, moult (US molt), smolt, volt poult2(also poult-de-soie) noun puːltpʊltpult mass nounA fine corded silk or taffeta, typically coloured and used as a dress fabric. （尤指有色衣料）棱纹塔夫绸，罗缎 as modifier a lemon silk poult dress
Origin1930s: from French poult-de-soie, from poult (of unknown origin) + de soie 'of silk'. nounpōltpoʊlt Farming A young domestic chicken, turkey, pheasant, or other fowl being raised for food. 〔农〕（养来食用的）幼禽，雏禽 Example sentencesExamples - She wasn't about to disturb the eight crow-size poults that lurked in the leaf litter behind their protective mother.
- Adult chickens and chicks are more likely to eat the beetles and their larvae than poults or turkeys.
- The females and their broods can all associate with each other, so there may be multiple hens with poults (young turkeys) in a group.
- It's early August, and he checks to make sure his 34 turkey poults are kept warm until they are ready for pasture in eight weeks.
- Bacteria are fed to newly hatched poults and these bacteria occupy sites in the intestinal tract that would be optimal for pathogen attachment and colonization.
OriginLate Middle English: contraction of pullet. poult2(also poult-de-soie) nounpo͞oltpult A fine corded silk or taffeta, typically colored and used as a dress fabric. （尤指有色衣料）棱纹塔夫绸，罗缎 as modifier a lemon silk poult dress
Origin1930s: from French poult-de-soie, from poult (of unknown origin) + de soie ‘of silk’. |