turkey : Idioms & Phrases

• noun small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes
  Quercus laevis; American turkey oak.
  

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• noun black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
  Alectura lathami.
  

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Brush" tur`key

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1. (Zoöl.) A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. ✍ The brush turkeys live in the "brush," and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap of decaying vegetable matter, which generates heat sufficient to hatch the numerous eggs (sometimes half a bushel) deposited in it by the females of the flock.

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• noun the capital of Turkey; located in west-central Turkey; it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats
  Ankara; Angora; Turkish capital.
  

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• noun a blunt expression of views
  
  • I told him cold turkey
• noun complete and abrupt withdrawal of all addictive drugs or anything else on which you have become dependent
  
  • he quit smoking cold turkey
  • she quit her job cold turkey

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• noun large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes
  Quercus cerris; European turkey oak.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the Australian bustard (Choriotis australis); called also bebilya.

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• noun wild turkey of Central America and northern South America
  Agriocharis ocellata.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the wild turkey of Central America (Meleagris ocellata).

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• noun popular Australian game bird
  Choriotis australis.
  

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• noun 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
  Turkey.
  

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• verb discuss frankly, often in a business context
  

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• noun male turkey
  gobbler; tom turkey; tom.
  

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• noun a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
  Cathartes aura; turkey buzzard; buzzard.
  

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• a superior kind of carpet made in Asia Minor and adjoining countries, having a deep pile and composed of pure wool with a weft of different material. It is distinguishable by its coloring and patterns from similar carpets made in India and elsewhere.

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• noun male turkey
  gobbler; tom turkey; tom.
  

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• noun the lower joint of the leg of a turkey
  turkey drumstick.
  

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• noun the lower joint of the leg of a turkey
  turkey drumstick.
  

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• noun small slow-growing deciduous shrubby tree of dry sandy barrens of southeastern United States having leaves with bristle-tipped lobes resembling turkey's toes
  Quercus laevis; American turkey oak.
  
• noun small semi-evergreen shrubby tree of southeastern United States having hairy young branchlets and leaves narrowing to a slender bristly point
  Quercus incana; bluejack oak.
  
• noun large round-topped deciduous tree with spreading branches having narrow falcate leaves with deeply sinuate lobes and wood similar to that of northern red oaks; New Jersey to Illinois and southward
  swamp red oak; Quercus falcata; southern red oak.
  
• noun large deciduous tree of central and southern Europe and Asia Minor having lanceolate leaves with spiked lobes
  Quercus cerris; European turkey oak.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Cerris.

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• noun a bright orange-red color produced in cotton cloth with alizarine dye
  alizarine red.
  

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• . (a) A brilliant red imparted by madder to cottons, calicoes, etc., the fiber of which has been prepared previously with oil or other fatty matter. (b) Cloth dyed with this red.

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• . (Zoöl.) See Toilet sponge, under Sponge.

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• noun a stew made with turkey
  

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• a kind of oilstone from Turkey; novaculite; called also Turkey oilstone.

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• noun stuffing for turkey
  

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• noun an early ragtime one-step
  

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• noun a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States
  Cathartes aura; turkey buzzard; buzzard.
  

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• noun the wing of a turkey
  

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• adjective satellite having the approximate size of a turkey
  

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• noun blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions
  Anhinga anhinga.
  

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Wa"ter tur"key

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) The American snakebird. See Snakebird.

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• . (Zoöl.) Same as Brush turkey.

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• . (Zoöl.) See 2d Turkey.

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