wildfowl

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From wild + fowl.

No doubt they fire a charge or two of shot into a passing flight of wildfowl when they get the chance." — The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Also caught were a couple dozen Nile duck, superior-tasting wildfowl whose neck and crown of the head are white speckled with black. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne
Countless were the hares ready skinned and the plucked fowls that hung on the trees for burial in the pots, numberless the wildfowl and game of various sorts suspended from the branches that the air might keep them cool. — Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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