fowl🔊

A bird of the order Galliformes, to which belong chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.

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.

(archaic) Any bird.

To hunt fowl.

(obsolete) Foul.