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US
/ˈhɛn/
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[ UK /hˈɛn/ ]
[ UK /hˈɛn/ ]
NOUN
- flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing
- adult female chicken
- adult female bird
- female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster
How To Use hen In A Sentence
- When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu. NYT > Home Page
- When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
- It sparked to life in the second act, when the symbolism gave way to themes of lust and sexual temptation.
- The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
- When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
- But at lunch on the first day we were approached by the helpful Hotel Manager Henri and offered a swap to an overwater bungalow.
- Dom recognized a master tactician when he saw one. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
- But then on the other hand, the whole cosmos or universe is based on this love or compassion.
- The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys