fowl vs poultry

fowl and poultry both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fowl	Yes	No	Yes	No
poultry	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fowl and poultry are synonyms defined as:

fowl and poultry: a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl

Other synonyms of fowl include domestic fowl.

As nouns, poultry is a hyponym of fowl; that is, poultry is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fowl:

Other hyponyms of fowl include wildfowl.

fowl (noun)	poultry (noun)
a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl	a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food	flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

fowl (verb)	poultry (verb)
hunt fowl in the forest
hunt fowl