pullet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a young female chicken, especially one less than a year old or not yet laying eggs

   The farmer kept each pullet apart from the older laying hens.

2. 2
   noun

   the meat of a young chicken of a size suitable for roasting or frying

   The cook roasted the pullet with herbs and root vegetables.

From Middle English polet or pulet, from Anglo-Norman and Old French pullet or poulet, 'young chicken,' a diminutive related to poule, 'hen,' and ultimately Latin pullus, 'young animal or bird.' Poult is a doublet from the same source.

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