fowl
A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
Synonyms
- bird
A kind of
- meat
Kinds of fowl
- poultry
Word history
From Old English "fugol" (bird).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “fowl” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.