poultry vs fowl

poultry and fowl both are nouns.

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

As nouns, poultry and fowl are synonyms defined as:

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

Other synonyms of poultry include domestic fowl.

As nouns, fowl is a hypernym of poultry; that is, fowl is a word with a broader meaning than poultry:

Other hypernyms of poultry include bird.

poultry (noun)	fowl (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
flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food	the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food

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