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wild turkey

wild turkey noun: a large gamebird, Meleagris gallopavo, native to North America.

wild turkey: a large gamebird, Meleagris gallopavo, native to North America
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Noun

wild turkey (plural wild turkeys)

  1. A large gamebird, Meleagris gallopavo, native to North America.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, turkey.

Proper noun capitalized: Wild Turkey

Wild Turkey

  1. A brand of bourbon whiskey from Kentucky.
    • When tie had gotten a steroid prescription then, the doctor's office had been seedy and the doctor himself had smelled of Wild Turkey.1994, Tim Green, Ruffians: A Novel, page 51
    • From behind a cardboard grocery carton of toilet paper I took a bottle of Wild Turkey.1999, Anne Rivers Siddons, Low Country, page 142

wild turkey meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Arabic and Malay

wild turkey in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

wild turkey in Bengali

Meleagris gallopavo
তিতির titir

wild turkey in Arabic

Meleagris gallopavo
دِيك رُومِي dīk rūmī

wild turkey in Malay

Meleagris gallopavo
Ayam Piru, Ayam Belanda
More languagesFewer languages
wild turkey in Indonesian
kalkun
wild turkey in Persian
بوقلمون bôgalamôn
wild turkey in Vietnamese
gà tây, gà lôi

Forms of wild turkey

pluralwild turkeys

Questions about wild turkey

What does wild turkey mean?
Wild turkey means a large gamebird, Meleagris gallopavo, native to North America.
What is wild turkey in Tamil?
Wild turkey in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Wild turkey meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wild turkey?
Wild turkey can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of wild turkey?
The plural of wild turkey is wild turkeys.

Words near wild turkey in the dictionary

  1. wild thyme
  2. wild thymes
  3. wild tobacco
  4. wild track
  5. wild tracks
  6. wild turkey
  7. wild turkeys
  8. wild turmeric
  9. wild type
  10. wild types
  11. wild weasel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wild turkey (page history and authors); Wild Turkey (page history and authors); wild turkey (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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