How to Spell turkey

turkey - noun

• The guinea fowl (family Numididae).

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

• The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

• 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)).