Fowl
31fowl — Gullah Words fowl, fowls; chicken, chickens …
32fowl — See: neither fish nor fowl …
33fowl — n 1. hen, brood hen, mother hen, old hen, biddy, chicken; rooster, cock, bantam, chanticleer. 2. domestic fowl, barnyard birds, poultry, ducks, turkeys, geese, peahens, peacocks; birds, pheasants, quail, partridge, guinea hens; waterfowl …
34fowl — [faʊl] (plural fowl fowls) noun [C] a chicken or other bird that is kept on a farm for its eggs and meat …
35fowl — ‘You poor boiling fowl’ is addressed to a woman by a man in The Half Hunter, by John Sherwood. The speaker is characterized in part by his use of unusual vocatives, and this is certainly one of them …
36fowl-pest — fowlˈ pest noun 1. An acute contagious virus disease of birds (also fowlˈ plague) 2. Another similar disease, Newcastle disease • • • Main Entry: ↑fowl …
37fowl mite — n CHICKEN MITE see NORTHERN FOWL MITE * * * Dermanyssus gallinae …
38fowl tick — n any of several ticks of the genus Argas (as A. persicus) that attack fowl in the warmer parts of the world causing anemia and transmitting various diseases (as spirochetosis) called also chicken tick …
39fowl typhoid — n an infectious disease of poultry characterized by diarrhea, anemia, and prostration and caused by a bacterium of the genus Salmonella (S. gallinarum) * * * an acute infectious disease of fowl caused by Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica… …
40fowl|pest — «FOWL PEHST», noun. an infectious virus disease of poultry, common in Europe, characterized by diarrhea, laying of soft shelled eggs or loss of ability to lay eggs, respiratory difficulty, and discharge of mucus …