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noun. A large North American bird (Meleagris gallopavo) that has brownish plumage and a bare wattled head and neck and is widely domesticated for food.

noun. The flesh of this bird, used as food.

noun. A related bird (Meleagris ocelatta syn. Agriocharis ocellata) of Mexico and Central America, brilliantly colored and having eyelike spots on its tail.

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noun. A person considered inept or undesirable.

noun. A failure, especially a failed theatrical production or movie.

noun. Three consecutive strikes in bowling.

idiom. (talk turkey) To speak frankly about the basic facts of a matter.

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noun. A bag containing a lumber-jack's outfit.

noun. An American gallinaceous bird of the genus Meleagris; any species of Meleagridæ. See the technical names.

noun. The second species of Meleagris is M. ocellata, the ocellated turkey of Honduras and some other parts of Central America. This is much smaller and more beautiful than the other; the plumage is intensely lustrous, and in part eyed with iridescent ocelli, recalling those of the peacock; the bare head is deep-blue, studded with caruncles of an orange color, and no dewlap is developed.

noun. With qualifying term, one of several different Australian birds which resemble or suggest the turkey. See phrases below.

noun. Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.

noun. a name of certain American perennial liliaceous herbs of the genus Xerophyllum. They have a dense tuft of hard, narrowly linear radical leaves, and a long raceme of small whitish flowers. Also called turkey's beard.

noun. a West Indian name for the fruit of certain kinds of nightshade (Solanum mammosum, and Solanum torvum).

noun. the wryneck. So called because it erects and ruffles the feathers of its neck when disturbed.

noun. a black or nearly black buzzard (Cathartes aura), abundant in the Southern United States. It is so called because its naked and warty head and neck resemble those of a turkey. It is noted for its high and graceful flight. Called also turkey vulture.

noun. a male turkey.

noun. a female turkey.

noun. a young turkey.

noun. the turkey buzzard.

proper noun. A country in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.

proper noun. a superior kind of carpet made in Asia Minor and adjoining countries, having a deep pile and composed of pure wool with a weft of different material. It is distinguishable by its coloring and patterns from similar carpets made in India and elsewhere.

proper noun. See Cerris.

proper noun. Cloth dyed with this red.

proper noun. See Toilet sponge, under Sponge.

proper noun. a kind of oilstone from Turkey; novaculite; -- called also Turkey oilstone.

noun. Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks.

noun. A failure.

noun. A foolish or inept person.

noun. An act of throwing three strikes in a row.

noun. an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual

noun. large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food

noun. a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923

noun. flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted

noun. a person who does something thoughtless or annoying

"- TURKEY HUNT PREVIEW When Thomas Washburn, 14, of Woodbury, heads into the turkey woods in about a week, he'll try to accomplish something on his first hunt that his grandfather, Reinhard Riessen, a veteran of many hunts near Mankato, has never done: bag a gobbler."

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