Definitions for Houdan

Houdan Hou·dan

Spelling: [hoo-dan]
IPA: /ˈhu dæn/

Houdan is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in Houdan (adhnou).

Definitions for Houdan

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  1. one of a French breed of chickens having a V -shaped comb, five toes, and mottled or black plumage.

Origin of Houdan

First recorded in 1870-75; after Houdan, village near Paris where these hens were bred

Examples for Houdan

It is also clear that the offspring of Silkie crosses are more apt to be polydactyl than those of Houdan crosses.

The Houdan has the size, deep compact body, short legs, and fifth toe of the Dorking.

The wide-nostriled races used were both the Polish and the Houdan.

The Polish and Houdan fowl thus retain in the outer nasal opening an embryonic condition.

A Houdan cockerel with bedraggled speckly plumage and a ragged crest hanging over one eye struts from doorstep to doorstep.

The breed takes its name from the town of Houdan, the center of a district in which this is the common type of fowl.

To summarize: "Potency," as measured by dominance of the extra-toed condition, is inherited, in the Houdan crosses at least.

Also the average degree of polydactylism is much greater in the Silkie than in the Houdan crosses.

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