silkie

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsɪlki/
  • Rhymes: -ɪlki

Noun

silkie (plural silkies)

  1. A chicken of a certain breed with very fine, silk-like feathers, blue-black skin and bones, and five toes per foot (instead of the usual four).
    • 2016 February 10, “Parallel Evolution of Polydactyly Traits in Chinese and European Chickens”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      Our results also identified the causative mutation of polydactylous Silkie was not exist in other nonpolydactyly chickens, suggesting that SNP of polydactyly in Silkie has fully penetrated all other indigenous Chinese chicken breeds.
  2. Alternative spelling of selkie.

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