| fowl (foul) n. pl. fowl or fowls 1. Any of various birds of the order Galliformes, especially the common, widely domesticated chicken (Gallus gallus). 2. a. A bird, such as the duck, goose, turkey, or pheasant, that is used as food or hunted as game. b. The flesh of such birds used as food. 3. A bird of any kind. intr.v. fowled, fowl·ing, fowls To hunt, trap, or shoot wildfowl. [Middle English foul, from Old English fugol; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.] fowl  er n. |
fowl [faʊl]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) See domestic fowl
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any other bird, esp any gallinaceous bird, that is used as food or hunted as game See also waterfowl, wildfowl
3. (Cookery) the flesh or meat of fowl, esp of chicken
4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) an archaic word for any bird
vb
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Hunting) (intr) to hunt or snare wildfowl
[Old English fugol; related to Old Frisian fugel, Old Norse fogl, Gothic fugls, Old High German fogal]
fowl, poultry - Chickens, ducks, geese, pheasants, and turkey are fowl in the wild and poultry if domesticated.
See also related terms for poultry.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  fowl - a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowlgallinacean, gallinaceous bird - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds Dorking - an English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled) Plymouth Rock - an American breed of domestic fowl Cornish fowl, Cornish - English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters Rock Cornish - small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl game fowl - any of several breeds reared for cockfighting cochin, cochin china - Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs genus Gallus, Gallus - common domestic birds and related forms Gallus gallus, chicken - a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl bantam - any of various small breeds of fowl Meleagris gallopavo, turkey - large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food guinea fowl, Numida meleagris, guinea - a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world saddle - posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl poultry - flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food |
| 2. | fowl - the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food bird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings wishbone, wishing bone - the furcula of a domestic fowl poultry - flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food wildfowl - flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food drumstick - the lower joint of the leg of a fowl second joint, thigh - the upper joint of the leg of a fowl wing - the wing of a fowl; "he preferred the drumsticks to the wings" oyster - a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl parson's nose, pope's nose - the tail of a dressed fowl meat - the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food dark meat - the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food | |
| Verb | 1. | fowl - hunt fowl hunt, hunt down, track down, run - pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" |
| 2. | fowl - hunt fowl in the forest grouse - hunt grouse hunt, hunt down, track down, run - pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" |
fowl
noun poultry Ducks and many other animals are fowl.
Types of fowl
American wigeon or baldpate, Ancona chicken, Andalusian chicken, Australorp chicken, bantam chicken, barnacle goose, Bewick's swan, black swan, blue duck, blue goose, Brahma chicken, brush turkey, bufflehead, Campine chicken, Canada goose, canvasback, Cochin chicken, cock or cockerel, Dorking chicken, duck, eider or eider duck, Faverolle chicken, gadwall, goldeneye, goosander, goose, greylag or greylag goose, Hamburg chicken, harlequin duck, hen, Houdan chicken, Leghorn chicken, magpie goose, mallard, mallee fowl or (Austral.) gnow, mandarin duck, marsh hen, megapode, merganser or sawbill, Minorca chicken, moorhen, Muscovy duck or musk duck, mute swan, nene, New Hampshire chicken, Orpington chicken, paradise duck, pintail, Plymouth Rock chicken, pochard, redhead, Rhode Island Red chicken, ruddy duck, scaup or scaup duck, screamer, sea duck, shelduck, shoveler, smew, snow goose, sultan, Sumatra chicken, Sussex chicken, swan, teal, trumpeter swan, turkey, velvet scoter, whistling swan, whooper or whooper swan, wigeon or widgeon, wood duck, Wyandotte chicken
Translations
fowl [faʊl]
fowl
n
(= poultry) → Geflügel nt; (= one bird) → Huhn nt → /Gans f → /Truthahn m → etc; to keep fowl → Hühner etc halten; roast fowl (Cook) → Brathuhn nt
the fowls of the air (liter) → die Vögel des Himmels
vi (also to go fowling) → auf Vogeljagd gehen
n fowl [faul]
a bird, especially domestic, eg hens, ducks, geese etc He keeps fowls and a few pigs. pluimvee طَيْر، دجاجَه птица drůbež fjerkræ das Geflügel πουλερικό ave de corral (kodu)lind پرنده؛ طیور kanalintu oiseau de basse-cour עוֹף पालतू चिड़िया ptica, perad baromfi unggas (ali)fugl volatile 家禽 닭, (집오리, 칠면조 등의) 가금 naminis paukštis mājputns burung (ge)vogel(te) fjærfe, høne drób ave pasăre de curte домашняя птица hydina perutnina perad höns[], fjäderfä สัตว์ปีกที่เลี้ยงไว้ใช้เป็นอาหารในครัวเรือน kümes hayvanı 家禽 птиця انڈے دینے والے پالتو پرندوں میں سے کوئی thịt gia cầm; gia súc 家禽
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