Definition of gallinaceous:

part of speech: adjective

Denoting birds like the domestic fowl, pheasant, turkey, & c.

Usage examples:

• Two pigeons and four species of quail are all the rasorial birds in the island; the true gallinaceous birds being wholly wanting. John West in "The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2)".

• In 1868, in the course of a memoir on the anatomy of the gallinaceous birds and their allies, he made a useful attempt, nearly the first of its kind, to correlate anatomical facts with geographical distribution. P. Chalmers Mitchell in "Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work".

• In less time than it takes to tell it, that gallinaceous army had passed out of sight, forever. George W. Sears in "Woodcraft".