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moorfowl

moorfowl noun: the red grouse.

moorfowl: the red grouse
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Noun

moorfowl (plural moorfowl or moorfowls)

  1. The red grouse.
    • It was overgrown by enormous beds of reeds, in which moorfowl, water-hens, and coots abounded[…]1902 January 3, “A Smuggling Adventure”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 22, page 692

Forms of moorfowl

pluralmoorfowl
pluralmoorfowls

Origin of moorfowl

From moor + fowl.

Questions about moorfowl

What does moorfowl mean?
Moorfowl means the red grouse.
What part of speech is moorfowl?
Moorfowl is a noun.
What is the plural of moorfowl?
The plural of moorfowl is moorfowl.

Words near moorfowl in the dictionary

  1. Moorestown
  2. Mooreville
  3. Moorey
  4. Moorfield
  5. Moorfields
  6. moorfowl
  7. moorfowls
  8. Moorgate
  9. Moorhampton
  10. Moorhead
  11. moorhen

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