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Definition of hen noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

hen

noun

NAmE//hɛn//

1a female chicken, often kept for its eggs or meat a small flock of laying hens battery hens

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2(especially in compounds) any female bird a hen pheasant compare cock see moorhen

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