jungle fowl

Questions about jungle fowl

What does jungle fowl mean?

jungle fowl means "small Asiatic wild bird; believed to be ancestral to domestic fowl".

What is another word for jungle fowl?

Close synonyms include gallina. 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 jungle fowl a common word?

jungle 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.