1. A domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
   "Chickens are the most common type of domestic fowl";
   - domestic fowl, poultry
    
2. The flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
   "The hunter prepared the wild fowl for dinner";
   - bird

1. Hunt fowl
   "They fowled ducks in the wetlands"

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Derived forms: fowls, fowl, fowled, fowling

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

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

Encyclopedia: Fowl