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The agriculture department says that wild birds, particularly migrating waterfowl, are the primary source of virus spread to domestic poultry and other birds.—Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2026 Meals center real protein sources like poultry, beef, and fish rather than relying primarily on protein powders.—Rita Templeton, Flow Space, 13 Feb. 2026 The bird flu outbreak strain, H5N1, which started among poultry flocks and wild birds in Europe in the fall of 2020 before moving to the United States, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, has become the nation's largest such outbreak.—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026 However, eating skin-on poultry and bone-in meat can also provide collagen.—Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 11 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for poultry
Word History
Etymology
Middle English pultrie, from Anglo-French pulletrie, from pulleter poulterer, from pullet chicken — more at pullet
Middle English pultrie "fowl raised for food," from early French pulletrie (same meaning), from pulleter "one who raises poultry," from pullet "chicken" — related to pullet