1. turkey(n = noun.animal) meleagris gallopavo - large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food;
is a kind of domestic fowl, fowl, poultry
is a member of genus meleagris, meleagris
has particulars: gobbler, tom, tom turkey, turkey cock
2. turkey(n = noun.location) republic of turkey - 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;
is a kind of country, land, state
is a part of anatolia, asia minor, balkan peninsula, balkans, middle east, mideast, near east
has parts: adrianople, adrianopolis, edirne, kurdistan, abydos, adana, seyhan, angora, ankara, capital of turkey, turkish capital, adalia, antalya, antakiya, antakya, antioch, canakkale bogazi, dardanelles, hellespont, halicarnassus, constantinople, istanbul, stamboul, stambul, brusa, bursa, izmir, smyrna, pergamum, sardis, aegospotami, aegospotamos, ararat, mount ararat, mt. ararat, aras, araxes, bosporus, euphrates, euphrates river, seyhan, seyhan river, tigris, tigris river
is a member of nato, north atlantic treaty organization
3. turkey(n = noun.person) joker - a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway"
is a kind of disagreeable person, unpleasant person
4. turkey(n = noun.food) - flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted;
is a kind of poultry
has parts: breast, white meat, turkey wing
5. turkey(n = noun.event) bomb, dud - an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
is a kind of bust, fizzle, flop
A country in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia. [1913 Webster]
Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus
" The Mexican wild turkey is now considered a variety of the northern species (var.
turkey, n. (pl. -eys)
1 a large mainly domesticated game-bird, Meleagris gallopavo, orig. of N. America, having dark plumage with a green or bronze sheen, prized as food esp. on festive occasions including Christmas and, in the US, Thanksgiving.
2 the flesh of the turkey as food.
3 US sl. a a theatrical failure; a flop. b a stupid or inept person.
Idiom:
talk turkey US colloq. talk frankly and straightforwardly; get down to business. turkey buzzard (or vulture) an American vulture, Cathartes aura.
Etymology:
16th c.: short for turkeycock or turkeyhen, orig. applied to the guinea-fowl which was imported through Turkey, and then erron. to the Amer. bird
american turkey oak, brush turkey, capital of turkey, cold turkey, european turkey oak, ocellated turkey, plain turkey, republic of turkey, talk turkey, tom turkey, turkey buzzard, turkey cock, turkey drumstick, turkey leg, turkey oak, turkey red, turkey stew, turkey stuffing, turkey trot, turkey vulture, turkey wing, water turkey