bantam
noun[C]
uk/ˈbæn.təm/us/ˈbæn.t̬əm/asmallbreedofchicken
矮脚鸡Hens
- broiler
- chick
- chicken
- chook
- cock
- cockerel
- fryer
- rooster
- Every one who has visited the poultry shows of the past few years must have been delighted and impressed to see the beautiful varieties of bantams.
- The little pheasants ran through the orchard and the little bantam hen followed them.
- Then again there are rabbits in the stable and very tame pigeons and the tiniest of bantams.
- There were eggs that a tiny bantam hen had laid, made into an omelette with very rare herbs from the castle kitchen garden.
- Yes, Peter is my pet bantam rooster, said George.
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I see no difference between abantamegg and any other egg.
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No one on either side would wish to see disapproved of thebantamand small egg, suitably graded in quality, size and price.
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I knowbantameggs are very small, but all eggs—whether from abantamor from a gleanie—will be graded in the normal way.
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The girl—these experiments were carried out by girls—went in with a line of hose from thebantampump.
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He is abantamweight.
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I am one of the bantams.
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Thebantamsunfish typically inhabits sloughs, oxbows, ponds, backwaters, lakes, and swamps.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Today, thebantamversion is the most popular among poultry fanciers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thebantamrooster weighs on average 900g (32oz), while the hen weighs a smaller 800g (28oz).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1996, she captained her boy's hockey team at thebantamlevel.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A "truebantam" has no large counterpart, and is naturally small.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When he began playingbantambaseball in his teens, he started out as a first baseman.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Bantamunits were drawn from industrial and coal mining areas where short stature was no sign of weakness.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The breed comes in bothbantamand standard size.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The breed is quite small, even for abantam, with males weighing around 22 ounces (624 grams) and hens weighing 18 ounces (510 grams).
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