Rhode Island red

Other forms: Rhode Island reds

Definitions of Rhode Island red
  1. noun
    American breed of heavy-bodied brownish-red general-purpose chicken
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    type of:
    Gallus gallus, chicken
    a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
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