Fat Hen

Fat hen or fat-hen may refer to:

  • Hen and chicks, common name for a group of small succulent flowering plants native to Europe and northern Africa
  • Fat Hen, common name for Aristolochia rotunda (Smearwort), a perennial herb native to Southern Europe
  • Fat-hen, common name in Britain for Chenopodium album (White Goosefoot), a fast-growing weedy annual plant that is extensively cultivated and consumed in Northern India as a food crop, where it is referred to in Hindi as "Bathua".
  • Fette Henne, or "fat hen", nickname for the portly eagle of the Coat of arms of Germany that used to decorate the chamber of the Bundestag in Bonn, Germany. Also shows on certain German Euro coins

Famous quotes containing the words fat and/or hen:

    “The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
    —Anonymous.

    A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)

    “A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)