WATERFOWL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waterfowl mean? 

• WATERFOWL (noun)
  The noun WATERFOWL has 1 sense:

1. freshwater aquatic bird

  Familiarity information: WATERFOWL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERFOWL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freshwater aquatic bird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

water bird; waterbird; waterfowl

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

aquatic bird (wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water)

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

anseriform bird (chiefly web-footed swimming birds)

screamer (gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call)