fowl
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2.2
- noun
- /faʊl/
:
ave doméstica
- We owned horses, dairy cows, goats, a few sheep, chickens, guinea fowl, geese, and semi-tame mallard ducks.
- guinea fowl
- domestic fowl
- jungle fowl
Any, any kind of bird, fowl, pigeon, I, I, I, I wish bad things upon.
- Any, any kind of bird, fowl, pigeon, I, I, I, I wish bad things upon.
- And that same lake is visited by wild fowl that migrate N across the Bering Straits and into North America.
- They said that the word chicken referred only to broilers and fryers and not to the old hens that seller had sent, which it called fowl.
- Ground feeding birds like chicken and Guinea fowl eat ticks.
Examples
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A chicken is a widely domesticated Earth fowl.
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Chickens, pigs, cattle, and guinea fowl became a part of every Amazonian village scene within a couple of centuries.
Academic text (2001) -
There are also the ordinary fowl, chickens, and ducks, destined for the stew pot.
Fiction book (1996) -
Wild game, fowl, and fish were symbolically important main-dish options for people in the northwesternmost section of the Great Plains.
Academic text (2003) -
We raised a variety of domestic fowl on our farm, including chickens and ducks.
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Many recipes call for roasted fowl during the holiday season, particularly turkey and chicken.
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The market offered fresh fowl for sale, with local farmers showcasing their chickens and ducks.
Synonyms
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1.9
Birds kept on farms like chickens, ducks and turkeys for eggs and meat
Birds like chickens and ducks that people keep for eggs or meat
Idioms
- Informal
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8.1
Not clearly one thing or another so people cannot decide what it is
Compounds
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6.5
A farm bird from Africa with dark feathers and white spots, raised for meat and eggs
- Indian
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7.9
A small wild bird from South and Southeast Asia that became the domestic chicken
- Specialized
A contagious bacterial disease of birds, especially chickens, that causes sudden sickness and often death
- Archaic
A serious viral disease in chickens and farm birds that causes high fever, loss of appetite, and a dark comb
- Australian
A large Australian ground bird that builds big sand mounds to keep its eggs warm
- US
A brown and spotted North American bird that lives in prairie grasslands, like the prairie chicken
- Australian
A large ground bird that builds a warm mound of rotting plants to hatch its eggs
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word fowl comes from the old English fugol meaning 'bird', and it kept the sense of birds kept by people for eggs or meat. So fowl often means domestic birds such as chickens or ducks that people raise.