volaille vs poultry

volaille and poultry both are nouns.

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

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

volaille (noun)	poultry (noun)
the flesh of a chicken used for food	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