Meanings
nounjungle cock (plural jungle cocks)
plural jungle cocks
- Synonym of junglefowl.
The common jungle-cock of India (Gallus bankiva) was found here, and furnished us with some excellent meals; but we could get no deer.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 299Synonyms: junglefowl
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of junglefowl.
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