Chicken? Fowl or Poultry? – Appletons | 台北市立動物園資訊網

2018年6月15日—However,fowlcomprisesoftwobiologicalordersofbirds,landfowl(eg.chicken,quailandpheasant)andwaterfowl(eg.duck,gooseandswan).

The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary gives the definition of fowl as "a bird that is kept for its meat and eggs, for example a chicken." Poultry is defined by the same dictionary as "chickens, ducks and geese, kept for its meat and eggs." "Poultry" is a term used for any kind of domesticated bird, captive-raised for its utility, and traditionally the word has been used to refer to wildfowl and waterfowl but not to cage birds such as songbirds and parrots. Poultry also includes other birds that are killed for their meat, such as the young of pigeons (squabs) but does not include similar wild birds hunted for sport or food and known as game.

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Colloquially, fowl and poultry are used interchangeably. However, fowl ...