guinea fowl

Questions about guinea fowl

What does guinea fowl mean?

guinea fowl means "a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world".

What is another word for guinea fowl?

Close synonyms include guinea, Numida meleagris. 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 guinea fowl a common word?

guinea 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.