Turkeyhen
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of turkey-hen. alt-of, alternative
"It would be too great an undertaking to describe all the extraordinary birds that inhabit this country; but I cannot refrain from noticing that to which they give the name of gallinazo, from the resemblance it has to the turkeyhen. This bird is of the size of a peahen, but its head and neck are something larger."
Example
More examples"It would be too great an undertaking to describe all the extraordinary birds that inhabit this country; but I cannot refrain from noticing that to which they give the name of gallinazo, from the resemblance it has to the turkeyhen. This bird is of the size of a peahen, but its head and neck are something larger."
More for "turkeyhen"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.