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Fowl

/fˈaʊl/
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(noun) A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.

Neither fish nor fowl.
This is a fowl.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The farmer raised various types of ____, including chickens, ducks, and geese, on his land.

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