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Birds you'd eat, not birds you'd admire — chicken's whole taxonomic clique.
means A bird raised or hunted for food, especially domesticated ones like chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese.
from From Old English 'fugol,' the general Germanic word for 'bird' — a cousin of German 'Vogel' and Dutch 'vogel.' It once covered any winged creature, not just dinner candidates; you can still hear that old breadth in 'fowls of the air' in older Bible translations. Over time the everyday sense narrowed in English, as 'bird' took over the general meaning and 'fowl' settled into its present niche naming the feathered things humans pluck, roast, and keep in yards.
- vs bird
- all fowl are birds, not reverse
- two orders
- galliformes and anseriformes, basically dinner and pond
- homophone trap
- foul is unrelated, just rude
- waterfowl members
- ducks geese swans count too