[ noun ] Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs <noun.animal>
cochin \cochin\ n. [a shortened form of cochin-china fowl.] an Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs. [WordNet 1.5]
A spokesman at Paris' Cochin Hospital refused to disclose the cause of death.
In the 1840s, American sea captains brought back magnificent Cochin chickens and Brahma cocks, and New England farmers mated them with domestic poultry to breed the Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island Red and New York Wyandotte.
Blitz died Saturday night at Cochin Hospital following a serious illness, the officials said.
Any lingering doubts were dispelled by New Delhi's plan to build two or three 40,000-ton attack carriers in its Cochin shipyards.