What is another word for fowl?

Pronunciation: [fˈa͡ʊl] (IPA)

Fowl is a term used to refer to birds that are commonly used for food. It can also be used to describe birds that are reared for their eggs or for feathers. Synonyms for this word include poultry, game birds, chicken, turkey, duck, and geese. Poultry is the most common synonym for fowl, and it refers to domestic birds that are kept for their meat or eggs. Game birds refer to wild birds that are hunted for their meat. Chicken and turkey are specific types of poultry, while duck and geese refer to water birds that are commonly used for food. Other synonyms for fowl include cock, rooster, hen, and pheasant.

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  • Equivalence

  • Forward Entailment

    • Noun, singular or mass
      meat.
  • Reverse Entailment

  • Independent

    • Noun, singular or mass
      Crows.

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Usage examples for Fowl

Throughout all Scandinavia the many lakes, so numerous as to be unknown by name, also abound with water-fowl of nearly every description habitual to the North.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Afterwards they sat down to breakfast, and after the fatigue of the night, the hot broth of guinea-fowl tasted delicious.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The small junks, which had fled before the others like startled water-fowl, were already far away.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot

Famous quotes with Fowl

  • Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
    Ian Hacking
  • I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.
    Dave Winfield
  • Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
    Woody Allen
  • Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
    George Eliot
  • For the moment we will put aside the consideration of the effect upon others — which is so infinitely more important — and think only of the results for the man himself. It is necessary to do this because one of the objections frequently brought against vegetarianism is that it is a beautiful theory, but one the working of which is impracticable, since it is supposed that a man cannot live without devouring dead flesh. That objection is irrational, and is founded upon ignorance or perversion of facts. I am myself an example of its falsity; for I have lived without the pollution of flesh food — without meat, fish or fowl — for the last thirty-eight years, and I not only still survive, but have been during all that time in remarkably good health. Nor am I in any way peculiar in this, for I know some thousands of others who have done the same thing. I know some younger ones who have been so happy as to be unpolluted by the eating of flesh during the whole of their lives; and they are distinctly freer from disease than those who partake of such things.
    Charles Webster Leadbeater

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