Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology: [lowercase] A name of the common guinea-fowl, to which Linnæus gave the technical specific name Numida meleagris.
- noun An American genus of Phasianidæ or Meleagridæ, of large size with varied metallic plumage, naked tarsi spurred in the male, bare head with erectile fleshy caruncles, and a tuft of hair-like feathers on the breast; the turkeys.
- noun In conchology, a genus of mollusks: same as
Meleagrina .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Zoöl.) A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common turkey and the wild turkeys.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Meleagrididae: wild and domestic turkeys
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Examples
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Dear Frances, Your F. meleagris are so pretty and do deserve to be widely grown.
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Yours might be the only comment! lol The checkered plants are Fritillaria meleagris, too cute for words!
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Fritillaria meleagris has happily proven to be a mixture of white and purples.
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The parade of little bulbs includes crocus, winter aconite, dwarf iris (Iris reticulata), puschkinia (Pushkinia libanotica), checkered lilies (Fritillaria meleagris), spring starflower (Ipheion uniflorum), species tulips and grape hyacinth.
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There are a couple of patches of the F. meleagris that bloom a little later.
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Above Fritillaria meleagris bud This frosty morning must be Redbud Winter.
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November's recipes were from the states of Chihuahua and Yucatan, which, although quite far apart in both the geographical and culinary sense, share a common fondness for meleagris gallopavo.
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November's recipes were from the states of Chihuahua and Yucatan, which, although quite far apart in both the geographical and culinary sense, share a common fondness for meleagris gallopavo.
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We start with Helmeted guineafowl Numida meleagris (photo at left).
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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About 90% of the coral died, but not the animals that prey upon it, such as crown-of-thorns Acanthaster planci, bioeroder sea urchins Diadema mexicanum and Eucidiaris thouarsii, and the coralivorous fish Arothron meleagris.
Isla del Coco Marine and Terrestrial Conservation Area, Costa Rica 2008
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