Definitions for guinea-fowl

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Guinea-Fowl is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 580 anagrams from letters in guinea-fowl (-aefgilnouw).

Definitions for guinea-fowl

noun

  1. any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.

Origin of guinea-fowl

First recorded in 1645-55

Examples for guinea-fowl

From Tok-i-Tok we marched in a leisurely manner to a place whose name means in English "guinea fowl camp."

Another time he fed me and Paul a dinner of guinea fowl and Barbancourt rum.

Ducks waddle, geese strut, guinea fowl go trip-trip on feet too tiny.

But it was her light dinner—typically a broth with vegetables and either chicken or guinea fowl—that Wheeler saw as key.

With guinea fowl, rolls of crisp bacon, hominy and stewed celery, currant jelly.

The guinea, or guinea fowl, is about the size of a small fowl.

I pray that your nightingale, Mr. Gay, be not really a guinea fowl.

A woody hillside, populated by my pet chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl, trying to find their missing feathers.

He mopped his brow and lumbered back to examine the body of the guinea fowl.

No turkey-hen or guinea fowl could make a nest that cousin Csar could not find.

Word Value for guinea-fowl
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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