guinea-fowl

Noun

guinea fowl (countable and uncountable, plural guinea fowls or guinea fowl)

1. (countable) Any of several African birds of the family Numididae (6 species) resembling partridges.
   • A tiny white head with a small red wattle hanging from its beak was peeking into our tent. It whistled softly. I laughed. A guinea fowl.2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 273
2. (uncountable) The meat of this bird.
   • While Lawrence had given her the uncut version of his divorce, she had stolidly munched her way through a vast plate of guinea fowl stuffed with foie gras, boulangère potatoes and a wigwam of French beans.1998, Judy Astley, chapter 13, in Every Good Girl, Leicester: Ulverscroft, published 1999, →ISBN, page 211