mountain chicken

English

Etymology

Compound of mountain +‎ chicken. So called because it is a local delicacy, supposed to taste like chicken.

Noun

mountain chicken (plural mountain chickens)

  1. Leptodactylus fallax, a large edible frog native to Dominica and Montserrat.
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