caponize

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

動詞

他動詞

(transitive) To castrate (a cockerel) in order to fatten it for table use.

日本語の意味

食用目的で鶏（特に雄の鶏）を肥育するために去勢すること。

英語の意味

(transitive) To castrate (a cockerel) in order to fatten it for table use.

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The farmer decided to caponize the cockerels to improve their flavor and fatten them for market.

農家は、味を良くし市販用に太らせるために若い雄鶏を去勢することに決めた。

詳細

意味（1）

(transitive) To castrate (a cockerel) in order to fatten it for table use.

To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]

詳細

caponizes （ present singular third-person ）

caponizing （ participle present ）

caponized （ participle past ）

caponized （ past ）