Definition of "guinea fowl" [guinea fowl]

• Any of several pheasantlike birds of the family Numididae native to Africa, especially a widely domesticated species (Numida meleagris) having blackish plumage marked with many small white spots. Also called guinea hen. (noun)

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• "There were the brown eagles that came to feed on the worms so that eagles were as common as chickens and eagles wearing long brown trousers of feathers and other whiteheaded eagles walked together with the guinea fowl busily eating the worms."