fowl
/faʊl/noun
(复同单, 或fowls)(亦作domestic fowl)
1- a gallinaceous bird kept chiefly for its eggs and flesh; a domestic cock or hen饲养鸡。
1.1
- The domestic fowl is derived from the wild red junglefowl of SE Asia (see JUNGLEFOWL).饲养鸡源自东南亚野生红原鸡（见JUNGLEFOWL）。
1.2
- any other domesticated bird kept for its eggs or flesh, e.g. the turkey, duck, goose, and guineafowl家禽。
1.3
- mass noun the flesh of birds, especially of the domestic cock or hen, as food; poultry禽肉（尤指鸡肉）; 食用家禽。
1.4
- in the names of birds that resemble the domestic fowl［用于与家禽相似鸟类名称］：
spurfowl
malleefowl.
1.5
- birds collectively, especially as the quarry of hunters总称飞禽（尤指捕猎对象）。
1.6
- archaic a bird〈古〉鸟。
词源
Old English fugol, originally the general term for a bird, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vogel and German Vogel, also to FLY1.