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fowl

/foul/US // faʊl //UK // (faʊl) //

禽类,禽鸟,禽鸟类,鸟类

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fowls, fowl.

    • : the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken. Compare domestic fowl.
    • : any of several other, usually gallinaceous, birds that are barnyard, domesticated, or wild, as the duck, turkey, or pheasant.
    • : a full-grown domestic fowl for food purposes, as distinguished from a chicken or young fowl.
    • : the flesh or meat of a domestic fowl.
    • : any bird: waterfowl; wildfowl.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to hunt or take wildfowl.

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Examples

  • Mid-Atlantic dishes, from fish to fowl, play large on the menu.

  • Healthy birds housed within view of fellow fowl infected with a common pathogen mounted an immune response, despite not being infected themselves, researchers report online June 9 in Biology Letters.

  • She was born to be a helpmeet, to supply what the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air could not, in sorrow and pain.

  • You’d know what time of year it is simply by the chef’s choice of meat and fowl.

  • It is a multimillion-dollar business in which roughly 15 million fowl die a year.

  • It all began, the consensus seems to be, with the red jungle fowl.

  • Like all fowl, turkeys tend to go quiet when held upside down.

  • They had planned dinners together every night and ate guinea fowl, duck and other “interesting” dishes.

  • But it was her light dinner—typically a broth with vegetables and either chicken or guinea fowl—that Wheeler saw as key.

  • He stirred the smoldering ashes till the broiled fowl began to sizzle afresh.

  • Water-fowl that had not moved at the first alarm now sprang in myriads from reeds and sedges, and darkened the very air.

  • Chloride of Lime … bad smell … bad egg … white of egg … fowl … grain … flour … flour and water … milk fluid … milk.

  • The Chinese esteem it as a great delicacy and mix it with fowl and vegetables.

  • The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or caught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.