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wild_turkey

wild turkey

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English

A male wild turkey

Noun

wild turkey ‎(plural wild turkeys)

Used other than as an idiom: see wild,‎ turkey.
A large gamebird, Meleagris gallopavo, native to North America.

Translations

Meleagris gallopavo

Arabic: (Roman rooster) دِيك رُومِي ‎(dīk rūmī)
Bengali: titir pakhi ‎(titir pakhi)
Bulgarian: Пуйка ‎(puijka), Мисирка ‎(misirka)
Catalan: (Indian chicken) gall d’indi
Chinese:
Mandarin: 野火雞, 野火鸡 ‎(yěhuǒjī)
Czech: krocan divoký
Danish: kalkun (da)
Dutch: kalkoen (nl)
Estonian: kalkun (et)
Finnish: kalkkuna (fi)
French: dindon sauvage, (chicken from India) dinde (fr)
German: Truthahn (de)
Greek: (French chicken) gallopoula ‎(gallopoula)
Hebrew: (Indian rooster) תרנגול הודו (he) ‎(tarnegol hodu)
Hungarian: vadpulyka
Indonesian: kalkun (id)
Irish: turcaí
Italian: tacchino (it)

Japanese: (seven-faced bird) 七面鳥 (ja) ‎(shichimencho)
Korean: (seven-faced bird) 칠면조 ‎(chilmyeonjo)
Malay: Ayam Piru, (Dutch chicken) Ayam Belanda
Maltese: dundjan
Mandarin: (fire chicken) 火鸡 (zh) ‎(huoji)
Norwegian: kalkun
Ojibwe: gichi-bine, mizise
Persian: بوقلمون (fa) ‎(boogalamoon)
Polish: indyk (pl)
Portuguese: peru (pt)
Russian: инде́йка (ru) ‎(indéjka)
Scottish Gaelic: (French chicken) cearc frangach
Spanish: (peafowl) pavo (es), guajolote (es), chumpipe (es)
Swahili: kalkon
Turkish: hindi (tr)
Urdu: (elephant chicken) feel murgh
Vietnamese: (Western chicken) gà tây (vi)
Yiddish: אינדיק ‎(indik)

See also

wild turkey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Meleagris gallopavo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Meleagris gallopavo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons