"nightfowl" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From night + fowl.",
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          "ref": "1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Mariana:",
          "text": "Upon the middle of the night,\nWaking she heard the nightfowl crow:\nThe cock sung out an hour ere light",
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          "ref": "1899, Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Marque, page 63:",
          "text": "Now this wilderness was so utterly waste that not even the barking of a dog or the sound of a nightfowl could be heard.",
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          "ref": "1903, Ridgwell Cullum, The Devil's Keg: The Story of the Foss River Ranch, page 171:",
          "text": "He could see the ghostly outline of the distant peaks of the mountains, he could hear the haunting cries of nightfowl and coyote; but these things failed to interest him.",
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          "ref": "1980, Poul Anderson, Conan the Rebel, page 165:",
          "text": "An eagle? No, that could scarcely be; eagles were not nightfowl, nor would one descend this close to humans.",
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          "word": "night bird"
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      "ipa": "/ˈnaɪt.faʊl/"
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  "word": "nightfowl"
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