meleagrine

Adjective

meleagrine (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the genus Meleagris, including turkeys.
   • Having disposed of such records as we have of the extinct ancestors of the American turkeys — the so-to-speak meleagrine records — we can now pass to what is, comparatively speaking, the modern history of these famous birds, although some of this history is already several centuries old.1914, Edward A. McIlhenny, The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting, Doubleday, page 39
   • To use the district court's meleagrine analogy, one may add an additional step to the recipe: "continuing to cook the turkey until the skin is burned to a crisp."2003, United States Patents Quarterly, volume 65, page 1968