Turkeyhen

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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."

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