spring chicken
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a young person (especially a young man or boy)
Types & categories
- juvenile hypernym
- blade hyponym
- hobbledehoy hyponym
- pup hyponym
- schoolchild hyponym
- slip hyponym
Sense 2 noun
a young chicken having tender meat
Types & categories
- Gallus gallus hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | juvenile |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | blade |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hobbledehoy |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pup |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | schoolchild |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | slip |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | Gallus gallus |