1 [C,U] (plural fowl or fowls) a bird that is kept for its meat and eggs, for example a chicken:
a variety of domestic fowl
2 [C] (old use) any bird
seealsoGUINEAFOWL, WATERFOWL, WILDFOWL
IDIOMS see FISHn.
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