guinea fowl
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- noun
- /ˈɡɪni faʊl/
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pava de guinea
- Since the introduction of guinea fowl to our farm, we have benefited from their natural pest control abilities.
- guinea fowl and chickens
Ground feeding birds like chicken and Guinea fowl eat ticks.
- Ground feeding birds like chicken and Guinea fowl eat ticks.
Examples
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Masa Miyake, however, has three acres behind his house where he raises all the produce and meat he uses in his restaurant Miyake—pigs, chickens, guinea fowl, and vegetables native to Japan.
Blog text (10) -
She did most of the gardening, raised chickens and guinea fowl, slopped the hogs, and lavished affection on the dogs that gathered beneath the front porch and in the space underneath the house.
Academic text (1990) -
The guinea fowl is proving more complicated than expected.
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- Best guinea fowl I've ever tasted.
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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) -
We had 15 turkeys, 5 geese, 12 guinea fowl, and about 30 to 40 common fowls.
Blog text (2) -
The Claytons tried to raise the guinea fowl according to Jody's instructions, but they died off one by one, and in the end, even Janice lost her enthusiasm for them.
Fiction book (1990) -
We owned horses, dairy cows, goats, a few sheep, chickens, guinea fowl, geese, and semi-tame mallard ducks.
Fiction book (2001) -
The farmer raised guinea fowl for their delicious meat and nutritious eggs.
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In many cultures, guinea fowl is celebrated as a delicacy during special occasions.
Synonyms
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7.9
A bird with dark feathers and white spots often raised for meat
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2.2
A bird like a chicken kept for eggs or meat
A bird from Africa like a chicken with dark feathers and white spots kept for meat and eggs
A female bird with grey spotted feathers like a chicken
Birds like chickens and ducks that people keep for eggs or meat
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositional: 'guinea' specifies origin/type and 'fowl' denotes a domestic bird, so the meaning 'a type of fowl associated with Guinea' is directly derivable from the parts. This noun-noun formation is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Guinea fowl comes from birds that were brought to Europe long ago from the Guinea area of West Africa. Europeans called them guinea to show where they came from and fowl because they are birds, so the name means 'a bird from Guinea'.