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Rodents may dig up the tubers, so plant them in bulb baskets underground or in DIY cages made from chicken wire.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2025
Already 15 years ago, Studio Gang bent lengths of glulam to form a kind of cellulose chicken wire for a pavilion at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 Jan. 2025
However, these traps can prove hazardous to pollinators, songbirds, and other wildlife, so always install screening, plastic mesh, or chicken wire over the traps and secure these barriers with pushpins.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2024
The two Topanga natives pulled up to a grove with over a dozen Home Depot buckets of water, chicken wire, and a plastic bag of coast live oak seeds that had impatiently begun sprouting in their supervisor’s fridge.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
from its use for making enclosures for chickens
First Known Use
1887, in the meaning defined above
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“Chicken wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chicken%20wire. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
chicken wire
noun
: a light wire fencing with hexagonal openings
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