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turbo chook

turbo chook noun: the Tasmanian nativehen, Tribonyx mortierii.

Noun

turbo chook (plural turbo chooks)

  1. (Australia, slang) The Tasmanian nativehen, Tribonyx mortierii.
    • All of which means that the nice neat pattern suggested by other Tasmanian endemic birds isn't a template for all its endemics: did the turbo chooks evolve on the mainland (and, if so, why did they lose their flight powers there?) and later run to Tasmania, or did they evolve in Tasmania and cross...2018, Ian Fraser, Birds in Their Habitats: Journeys with a Naturalist, page 64

Forms of turbo chook

pluralturbo chooks

Questions about turbo chook

What does turbo chook mean?
Turbo chook means the Tasmanian nativehen, Tribonyx mortierii.
What part of speech is turbo chook?
Turbo chook is a noun.
What is the plural of turbo chook?
The plural of turbo chook is turbo chooks.

Words near turbo chook in the dictionary

  1. Turbiv
  2. turbo
  3. turbo broiler
  4. turbo cancer
  5. turbo cancers
  6. turbo chook
  7. turbo chooks
  8. turbo controller
  9. turbo controllers
  10. Turbo Diesel
  11. turbo encabulator

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