fowl

英 [faʊl]

美 [faʊl]

n.  家禽; 鸟
v.  捕鸟; 打鸟; 捕野禽

复数：fowls　现在分词：fowling　过去式：fowled　第三人称单数：fowls　过去分词：fowled　

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习惯用语

n.

neither fish nor fowl
• 非驴非马；不伦不类
  neither one thing nor another

牛津词典

noun

• 家禽
  a bird that is kept for its meat and eggs, for example a chicken
  1. fowl such as turkeys and ducks
     诸如火鸡和鸭之类的家禽
• 鸟
  any bird

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 鸟;(尤指)家禽
  Afowlis a bird, especially one that can be eaten as food, such as a duck or a chicken.
  1. Carve the fowl into 8 pieces.
     把这只家禽切成 8 块。
  2. ...ducks and many other animals and fowl.
     鸭子以及许多其他动物和家禽

英英释义

noun

• a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
  Synonym:domestic fowlpoultry
• the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
  Synonym:bird

verb

• hunt fowl in the forest
• hunt fowl

双语例句

• The geese's flight muscles also have more mitochondria energy-producing structures inside cells than their fellow fowl.
  斑头雁与其它飞禽相比，它们用于飞行的肌肉里有更多的线粒体&这是一种能在细胞内产生能量的结构。
• This proposal is neither fish nor fowl. I can't tell what you're proposing.
  这个建议不伦不类，我真说不出你在提些什么。
• A liquid mixture, usually of vinegar or wine and oil with various spices and herbs, in which meat, fowl, fish, and vegetables are soaked before cooking.
  腌泡汁一种液体混合物，通常将醋或葡萄酒与油混合并掺加各种香料和香草，其中的肉、禽、鱼和蔬菜在烹调前都要在里面浸透。
• Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
  切得精细或磨得很碎的、调了味的肝脏、肉和禽肉。
• Having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl.
  羽毛被去除了，例如从皮毛或者家禽上。
• Guinea fowl and related birds of Africa and Madagascar.
  珍珠鸡及产于非洲和马达加斯加的相关鸟类。
• I could match my cousin's game-cock with a sturdier fowl. liver of a chicken used as meat.
  我可以用一只更强壮的种鸡斗败我堂兄的公鸡。用作肉食的鸡的肝脏。
• Therewere several dozen varieties of fowl, such as the chicken, peasant, sparrow, and wild goose;
  有几十个品种的家禽，如鸡，农民，麻雀，和雁；
• The flesh of a bird or fowl ( wild or domestic) used as food.
  作为食物的鸟或家禽（野生或家养）的肉。
• The study on the digestive rates of dietary amino acids in silky fowl;
  研究了日粮中添加花粉对黑羽乌骨鸡生长发育的影响。