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moorfowl

noun

Etymology

From moor + fowl.

  1. inherited from *fuglaz✻
  2. inherited from *fugl✻
  3. inherited from fugol — “bird”
  4. inherited from foul
  5. compounded as moorfowl — “moor + fowl”

Definitions

  1. The red grouse.

    • It was overgrown by enormous beds of reeds, in which moorfowl, water-hens, and coots abounded[…]

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