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FOWL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl

Synonyms:

domestic fowl; fowl; poultry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("fowl" is a kind of...):

gallinacean; gallinaceous bird (heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds)

Meronyms (parts of "fowl"):

poultry (flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food)

saddle (posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fowl"):

Dorking (an English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled))

Plymouth Rock (an American breed of domestic fowl)

Cornish; Cornish fowl (English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters)

Rock Cornish (small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl)

game fowl (any of several breeds reared for cockfighting)

cochin; cochin china (Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs)

chicken; Gallus gallus (a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl)

bantam (any of various small breeds of fowl)

Meleagris gallopavo; turkey (large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food)

guinea; guinea fowl; Numida meleagris (a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world)

Holonyms ("fowl" is a member of...):

Gallus; genus Gallus (common domestic birds and related forms)

Derivation:

fowl (hunt fowl in the forest)

fowl (hunt fowl)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food

Synonyms:

bird; fowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("fowl" is a kind of...):

meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)

Meronyms (parts of "fowl"):

dark meat (the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food)

wishbone; wishing bone (the furcula of a domestic fowl)

drumstick (the lower joint of the leg of a fowl)

second joint; thigh (the upper joint of the leg of a fowl)

wing (the wing of a fowl)

giblet; giblets (edible viscera of a fowl)

oyster (a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl)

parson's nose; pope's nose (the tail of a dressed fowl)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fowl"):

poultry (flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food)

wildfowl (flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food)

Holonyms ("fowl" is a part of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hunt fowl in the forest

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "fowl" is one way to...):

hunt; hunt down; run; track down (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fowl"):

grouse (hunt grouse)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

In the summer they like to go out and fowl

Derivation:

fowl (a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hunt fowl

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "fowl" is one way to...):

hunt; hunt down; run; track down (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

In the summer they like to go out and fowl

Derivation:

fowl (a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl)

fowler (someone who hunts wild birds for food)

Credits

 Context examples: 

E. gallinarum has been isolated from the gastrointestinal tract of domestic fowl and is pathogenic in humans with some resistance to vancomycin.

(Enterococcus gallinarum, NCI Thesaurus)

A retro-transcribing virus, of the genus Alpharetrovirus and the family Retroviridae, that causes anemia and malignant disease in wild and domestic fowl.

(Avian Myeloblastosis Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

Heterocyclic Amines are formed from cooking meat such as beef, pork, fowl, and fish when amino acids and creatine (found in muscle) react at high temperatures.

(Heterocyclic Amine Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by respiratory and nervous symptoms in fowl and is transmissible to man causing a severe, but transient conjunctivitis.

(Newcastle Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

What are you going to take, Mr. Phelps—curried fowl or eggs, or will you help yourself?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A couple of bounds, a flash of teeth and a frightened squawk, and he had scooped in the adventurous fowl.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Squirrels were chattering, birds singing, and overhead honked the wild-fowl driving up from the south in cunning wedges that split the air.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

During this time we traversed a barren and forbidding country, which alternated between stony desert and desolate marshes full of many wild-fowl, upon the north and east of the cliffs.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Exhibiting a cyclic structure containing at least one amino (NH2) group, some Heterocyclic Amines are carcinogenic chemicals formed from cooking meat such as beef, pork, fowl, and fish when amino acids and creatine (found in muscle) react at high temperatures.

(Heterocyclic Amines, NCI Thesaurus)

To atone for this conduct therefore, Elinor took immediate possession of the post of civility which she had assigned herself, behaved with the greatest attention to Mrs. Jennings, talked with her, laughed with her, and listened to her whenever she could; and Mrs. Jennings on her side treated them both with all possible kindness, was solicitous on every occasion for their ease and enjoyment, and only disturbed that she could not make them choose their own dinners at the inn, nor extort a confession of their preferring salmon to cod, or boiled fowls to veal cutlets.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)