nonchicken

nonchicken

English

Etymology

non- +‎ chicken

Adjective

nonchicken (not comparable)

1. Not of or pertaining to chickens or their meat.
   • 1962, National poultry digest, Volume 21

     Psychological questioning showed that nearly two out of three housewives like to think of eggs in terms of food dishes or other nonchicken, nonfarm associations.

   • 1990, R D Crawford, Poultry breeding and genetics

     The ovalbumin and conalbumin promoters did not function in chicken fibroblasts, kidney cells, and a number of nonchicken cells.

   • 2008, Erica Spackman, Avian influenza virus

     This was the case with some AI viruses isolated from nonchicken species.