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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 that used to decorate the chamber of the Bundestag in Bonn, Germany. Also shows on certain German Euro coins