capon

n.
A male chicken castrated when young to improve the quality of its flesh for food.

[Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn and from Old French capon, both from Latin cāpō, cāpōn-.]

A castrated cockerel (male chicken), which has a faster rate of growth, and more tender flesh, than the cockerel. Surgery has generally been replaced by chemical caponization, the implantation of pellets of oestrogen.

Castrated male fowl, larger than broiler, weighing up to 7 lb; produced either by administration of estrogenic substances or by surgical excision of the testicles.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kastreret hane

Nederlands (Dutch)
kapoen

Français (French)
n. - chapon

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kapaun (verschnittener Masthahn)

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ορνιθ.) καπόνι

Italiano (Italian)
cappone

Português (Portuguese)
n. - frango (m) castrado, homem (m) efeminado

Русский (Russian)
каплун

Español (Spanish)
n. - pollo capón, animal castrado

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kapun

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
阉鸡

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 閹雞

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 식용 수탉, 거세한 토끼, 겁쟁이

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 食用雄鶏, 去勢鶏

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ديك‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תרנגול מסורס (מפוטם)‬

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