DOMESTIC FOWL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does domestic fowl mean? 

• DOMESTIC FOWL (noun)
  The noun DOMESTIC FOWL has 1 sense:

1. a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl

  Familiarity information: DOMESTIC FOWL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMESTIC FOWL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

domestic fowl; fowl; poultry

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "domestic fowl"):

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

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

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

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

 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)

The common domestic fowl, Gallus gallus.

(Chicken, 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)