WILDFOWL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wildfowl mean? 

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

1. flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILDFOWL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

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

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

grouse (flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil)

quail (flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised)

partridge (flesh of either quail or grouse)

pheasant (flesh of a pheasant; usually braised)

 Context examples 

In the fall of the year they penetrated a weird lake country, sad and silent, where wildfowl had been, but where then there was no life nor sign of life—only the blowing of chill winds, the forming of ice in sheltered places, and the melancholy rippling of waves on lonely beaches.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)