fowl

Word family nounfowlerfowlingfowl

Related topics: Birds, Agriculture

fowl /faʊl/ noun (plural fowl or fowls) [countableC, uncountableU] → foul

1. HBBTAa bird, such as a chicken, that is kept for its meat and eggs, or the meat of this type of bird 家禽；禽肉

2. old use any bird 鸟，飞禽

Examples from the Corpus

fowl• Then perhaps some joints of meat, or a fowl.• The voice on the telephone had informed the police the butcher was in the habit of buying stolen sheep and fowl.• On the glistening horizon two black dots appeared, separated, and became helicopters roaring low overhead and scattering the distracted fowl.• Fish, fowl and meat, most with a decidedly Southwestern treatment, are represented on the menu.• The red jungle fowl is the ancestor of the domestic chicken.• Red Jungle Fowl are the progenitors of the bewildering variety of domestic fowl.• A hen or stewing chicken or fowl is a mature female chicken, more than ten months old.• The menu of entrees at Firecracker ranges from fish to fowl to hoofed beast.

Origin fowl

Old English fugel

单词	fowl
释义	fowl Word family nounfowlerfowlingfowl Related topics: Birds, Agriculture fowl /faʊl/ noun (plural fowl or fowls) [countableC, uncountableU] → foul 1. HBBTAa bird, such as a chicken, that is kept for its meat and eggs, or the meat of this type of bird 家禽；禽肉 2. old use any bird 鸟，飞禽 Examples from the Corpus fowl• Then perhaps some joints of meat, or a fowl.• The voice on the telephone had informed the police the butcher was in the habit of buying stolen sheep and fowl.• On the glistening horizon two black dots appeared, separated, and became helicopters roaring low overhead and scattering the distracted fowl.• Fish, fowl and meat, most with a decidedly Southwestern treatment, are represented on the menu.• The red jungle fowl is the ancestor of the domestic chicken.• Red Jungle Fowl are the progenitors of the bewildering variety of domestic fowl.• A hen or stewing chicken or fowl is a mature female chicken, more than ten months old.• The menu of entrees at Firecracker ranges from fish to fowl to hoofed beast. Origin fowl Old English fugel
随便看	hoof it hoofs hoo ha hoo-ha hooha hoo-has hook hook hookah hookahs hook-and-eye hook and eye hook, captain hook,-captain hook,captain hooked hooked hooker hookers hookey hookier hookiest hooking hookings hookless