Meanings of laying hen in English

Her virtue was about as important as the spots on a laying hen.

You know a laying hen from an old cock, I suppose?

The food requirements of a laying hen are very like those of a growing chicken.

By day 35 it looks more like a weightlifter on steroids and dwarfs the egg- laying hen.

Several antibodies to antigens that are frequently expressed in human ovarian cancer were cross-reactive in the laying hen.

The molecular changes uncovered by the in vitro studies were verified in both human and laying hen ovarian cysts and tumor specimens.

A series of photographs taken a few days apart showed a normal, traditionally bred egg- laying hen as it grows from chick to maturity.

Epidemiologic and histopathologic findings and the laying hen model support the long-standing incessant ovulation hypothesis and cortical inclusion cyst involvement in sporadic ovarian cancer development.

Miscellaneous insects consumed by a laying hen quail, 1,532, of which 1,000 were grasshoppers; total weigh of the lot, 24.6 grams.