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Noun: fowl (fowl,fowls)  fawl
  1. A domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
    - domestic fowl, poultry
     
  2. The flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
    - bird
Verb: fowl  fawl
  1. Hunt fowl
     
  2. Hunt fowl in the forest

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Derived forms: fowl, fowling, fowls, fowled

Type of: gallinacean, gallinaceous bird, hunt, hunt down, meat, run, track down

Part of: bird, birdie [informal], Gallus, genus Gallus

Encyclopedia: Fowl