Look up: fowl

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   Fowl
   The term fowl was once used as a synonym for bird, but since around 1900 the term fowl has come to refer to birds of the genus Gallus. They resemble the pheasants, but the crown of the head is generally naked and furnished with a fleshy comb, the base of the lower mandibles also bears fleshy lobes (wattles).
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   fowl
   [v] - hunt fowl 2. [v] - hunt fowl, as in the forest
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   Fowl
   Fowl noun Instead of the plural Fowls the singular is often used collectively. [ Middle English foul , fowel , foghel , fuhel , fugel , Anglo-Saxon fugol ; akin to Old Saxon fugal D. & German vogel , Old High German fogal , Icelandic & Danish fugl , Swedish fogel , fågel , Goth. fugls ...
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   Fowl
   Fowl intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fowled ; present participle & verbal noun Fowling .] To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc. « Such persons as may lawfully hunt, fish, or fowl .» Blackstone. Fowling piece , a light gun with smoo ...
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   fowl
   Instead of the pl. Fowls the singular is often used collectively. [OE. Foul, fowel, foghel, fuhel, fugel, AS. Fugol; akin to OS. Fugal D. & G. Vogel, OHG. Fogal, Icel. & Dan. Fugl, Sw. Fogel, fagel, Goth. Fugls; of unknown origin, possibly by loss of l, from the root of E. Fly, or akin to E. Fox, as being a tailed animal. ... 1. Any bird; es ...
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   fowl
   verb hunt fowl in the forest
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   Fowl
   The birds referred to as `fowl` belong to one of two orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl (Galliformes) and the waterfowl (Anseriformes). Interestingly, studies of anatomical and molecular similarities suggest these two groups were close evolutionary relatives; together, they form the fowl clade which is scientifically known as `Galloanserae`. This clade has been supported by Retrotransposon presence/absence data as well. `Poultry`, on the o...
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   Fowl
   • (n.) Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus). • (n.) Any bird; esp., any large edible bird. • (v. i.) To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
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   fowl
   fowl: see poultry.
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