Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hen or female of the turkey.
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- noun A female
turkey .
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Examples
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This error then was compounded by confusion of the African bird known variously, depending on sex, as the turkey-cock or turkey-hen with the New World turkey, which was domesticated in Mexico prior to the Spanish invasion in 1518, and which is ancestral to the one we eat.
Hugh Rawson: Fowl Talk for the Holidays Hugh Rawson 2010
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This error then was compounded by confusion of the African bird known variously, depending on sex, as the turkey-cock or turkey-hen with the New World turkey, which was domesticated in Mexico prior to the Spanish invasion in 1518, and which is ancestral to the one we eat.
Hugh Rawson: Fowl Talk for the Holidays Hugh Rawson 2010
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This error then was compounded by confusion of the African bird known variously, depending on sex, as the turkey-cock or turkey-hen with the New World turkey, which was domesticated in Mexico prior to the Spanish invasion in 1518, and which is ancestral to the one we eat.
Hugh Rawson: Fowl Talk for the Holidays Hugh Rawson 2010
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This error then was compounded by confusion of the African bird known variously, depending on sex, as the turkey-cock or turkey-hen with the New World turkey, which was domesticated in Mexico prior to the Spanish invasion in 1518, and which is ancestral to the one we eat.
Hugh Rawson: Fowl Talk for the Holidays Hugh Rawson 2010
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This error then was compounded by confusion of the African bird known variously, depending on sex, as the turkey-cock or turkey-hen with the New World turkey, which was domesticated in Mexico prior to the Spanish invasion in 1518, and which is ancestral to the one we eat.
Hugh Rawson: Fowl Talk for the Holidays Hugh Rawson 2010
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This error then was compounded by confusion of the African bird known variously, depending on sex, as the turkey-cock or turkey-hen with the New World turkey, which was domesticated in Mexico prior to the Spanish invasion in 1518, and which is ancestral to the one we eat.
Hugh Rawson: Fowl Talk for the Holidays Hugh Rawson 2010
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The second day I had a turkey-hen brought to regale me.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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The result is as if a turkey-hen had unconsciously hatched the egg of an eagle.
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The intuition that guides the turkey-hen to her nest does not enable her to find her way out of a half-open log trap.
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The following singular instance of the far-sighted watchfulness of the turkey-hen over her young is narrated by a French priest.
A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals Percy J. Billinghurst
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