Having the form or resembling a fowl or chicken; shaped like or characteristic of domesticated birds in the order Galliformes.
From Latin 'gallus' (rooster, cock) + '-form' (from 'forma,' shape or form). The suffix creates an adjective describing something shaped like or resembling a rooster or gallinaceous bird.
The term 'galliform' unites chickens, turkeys, pheasants, and quail in one family—birds that evolved in a similar way, all with that characteristic body shape of heavy-bodied ground birds built for scratching rather than soaring.
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