Hen

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Hen commonly refers to a female animal: a chicken, other poultry, game bird, or lobster. It is also a slang term for a woman.

Hen or Hens may also refer to:

Places

Norway

• Hen, Buskerud, a village in Ringerike municipality, Buskerud county
• Hen, Møre og Romsdal, a former municipality now in Rauma municipality, Møre og Romsdal county
• Hen Church, a church in Møre og Romsdal, Norway

United Kingdom

• Hen Cliff, a coastal cliff on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England
• Hen, an alternative name of the Hazel Brook, a river in Bristol, England
• Hendon railway station, England; National Rail station code HEN

Other

• The abbreviation used for a series of astronomicals catalogues published by Karl Gordon Henize, for example Hen 2-47 a planetary nebula in the constellation Carina
• Hen Island (disambiguation), a list of various islands named Hen

Other uses

• hen (pronoun), a Swedish gender-neutral pronoun
• Eudaf Hen, a figure in Welsh mythology
• Hen (manga), a manga created by Hiroya Oku
• The hens, fictional characters from the novel Animal Farm