Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A water bird, especially a swimming bird.
- n. Swimming game birds, such as ducks and geese, considered as a group.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as water-birds.
- n. In a restricted sense, swimming birds, especially those which, as the Anseres, are used for food or for any reason engage the attention of sportsmen.
Wiktionary
- n. birds, such as ducks, geese and swans, that spend most of their non-flying time on water; especially those of the family Anatidae
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively.
WordNet 3.0
- n. freshwater aquatic bird
Etymologies
- water + fowl (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This whole lead thing (excluding lead shot use in waterfowl hunting) really is a somewhat sad current state of affairs.”
“You can obviously hunt waterfowl from a boat, but the motor has to be off, and your forward momentum from the motor has to have stopped.”
“Right when I started to take an interest in waterfowl hunting is when they mandated steel for waterfowl and it stopped me in my tracks.”
“It has been estimated that Canada and the USA add up to 3 1/2 million waterfowl lost every season because of steel shot resulting in waterfowl flying off and dying later.”
“Personally, I begin waterfowl hunting, and me and my buddies put on a coyote hunt in January.”
“I have a pointing lab and she is great in waterfowl and upland. if you interested ill give you the name and info of the breeder i bought her form.”
“Cooking waterfowl is not one of my specialties and this site gave me some great recipes.”
“A myxozoan parasite has been found in waterfowl here in the US, the first time a typically "cold-blooded" parasite has been found in "warm-blooded" animals.”
“But the hunting for upland birds and waterfowl is excellent.”
“- I’ve not been aware a any large increase in waterfowl numbers directly benefited by lead shot ban.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘waterfowl’.
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water phrases/words
how water is used
above water, across, over, on ..., all on a water, attend, watch (a ..., bear water, to, be on the water, to, bran and water, brandy-and-water, bread and water, burning water, by water, †cast, look, look... and 906 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Some new Wordie words this week
Don't tell them they are not real--they might cry.
glover, breakfront, submaximal, criticality, lanoline, mouthy, botheration, metaphorically, metaphase, disavowal, arum, ostentatiously and 162 more...
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Things Avian
Wordies relating to birdies. :-)
calidrid, corvid, avian, avifauna, beak, brood, aerie, altricial, albumen, winged, wattle, covey and 217 more...
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GRE Words Not Available in Power Vocab
machinate, barnstorm, pauper, heretical, fawn, inter, provenance, sartorial, mince, martinet, veritable, dignified and 81 more...
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The Inside Jokes
frump, defrock, birefringence, cabotage, westward, stye, tourniquet, leather, mansion, circumlocution, pneumonoultramicr..., haboob and 15 more...
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Fowl Word Play
Words that relate somehow to my backyard flock.
avian fury, frantic interspec..., bantam, cockbitten, cock of the walk, chicken, brood, broody hen, flockmaster, waterfowl
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Noun
lagoon, waterfowl, recapitulation, morphology, paleontology, embryology, lineage, parricide
Tweets
Looking for tweets for waterfowl.
reesetee Not at present. But you never know what'll be next. I may some day deconstruct my enormous mega-lists and sort out by type. :-) Nov 10, 2008
bilby Might you have a spare pond, err, list, for waterfowl, reesetee? Nov 10, 2008