fowl

noun (plural same or fowls)

• a gallinaceous bird kept chiefly for its eggs and flesh; a domestic cock or hen.

  • The domestic fowl is descended from the wild red junglefowl of Southeast Asia (see jungle fowl)
• any other domesticated bird kept for its eggs or flesh, e.g., the turkey, duck, goose, and guineafowl.
• the flesh of birds, especially of the domestic cock or hen, as food; poultry.
• birds collectively, especially as the quarry of hunters.
• archaic a bird.