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 ExamplesTopics Birdsc2I 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。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- battery
- free-range
- mother
- …
- keep
- lay
- lay eggs
- cluck
- …
- coop
- house
(especially in compounds 尤用于构成复合词 any female bird 雌禽 a hen pheasant 雌雉
Word OriginOld English henn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hen and German Henne.