Thesaurus:fowl

Thesaurus

fowl

English

Noun

Sense: a bird in order Galliformes or Anseriformes

Synonyms

• fowl
• gamefowl
• poultry
• wildfowl

Hyponyms

Larger groups

• duck
• megapode
• moundbuilder
• waterfowl

Smaller groups

• argus
• bobwhite
• brant
• brush-turkey
• chachalaca
• chicken
• curassow
• duck
• eider
• francolin
• gallopheasant
• goldeneye
• goose
• guan
• guineafowl
• junglefowl
• merganser
• monal
• partridge
• peafowl
• pheasant
• pintail
• pochard
• quail
• scaup
• scoter
• screamer
• scrubfowl
• shelduck
• shelgoose
• shoveler
• snowcock
• spurfowl
• swan
• teal
• tragopan
• turkey
• wigeon
• bamboo-partridge
• hill-partridge
• magpie-goose
• piping-guan
• tree-quail
• wood-partridge
• wood-quail

Single species

• canvasback
• chukar
• dabchick
• gadwall
• garganey
• hardhead
• maleo
• mallard
• malleefowl
• redhead    [⇒ thesaurus]
• smew
• spotbill
• rosybill

Hypernyms

• vertebrate    [⇒ thesaurus]
• animal    [⇒ thesaurus]
• bird    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

See Thesaurus:bird

See also

• Category:Birds

Further reading

• “fowl” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “fowl” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.