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Turkeys

The guinea fowl (family Numididae).

📖 Definitions of "Turkeys"

noun
  1. 1

    The guinea fowl (family Numididae).

  2. 2

    A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).

  3. 3

    The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

    "All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch."

  4. 4

    With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the bush turkey or brush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).

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