Relating to or belonging to the order Galliformes, which includes chickens, pheasants, quails, turkeys, and similar game birds.
From Latin 'gallina' meaning 'hen' or 'chicken' combined with the suffix '-aceous' (resembling or relating to). The root traces back to Indo-European origins of bird domestication.
Gallinaceous birds are among humanity's oldest domesticated animals—chickens have been with us for at least 8,000 years, and their DNA has been so mixed with wild junglefowl that tracing their ancestry is like solving an ancient puzzle.
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