domestic fowl

Questions about domestic fowl

What does domestic fowl mean?

domestic fowl means "a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl".

What is another word for domestic fowl?

Close synonyms include fowl, poultry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is domestic fowl a common word?

domestic fowl is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.