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Definition of Plain turkey

1. Noun. Popular Australian game bird.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plain Turkey

Literary usage of Plain turkey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"1872. CH Eden, ' My wife and I in Queensland," p. 122 : " The bird that repaid the sportsman best was the plain turkey or bustard (Otis ..."

2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"(1) To the bird Eupodotis austra- Jis, Gray, which is a true Bustard, but which is variously called the Native Turkey, plain turkey (from its frequenting ..."

3. Morals in Evolution: A Study in Comparative Ethics by Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1906)
"For example, a man of the plain turkey totem cannot marry a plain turkey woman. His wife will be, say, an Emu. Her children, male or female, ..."

4. Morals in Evolution: A Study in Comparative Ethics by Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1915)
"For example, a man of the plain turkey totem cannot marry a plain turkey woman. His wife will be, say, an Emu. Her children, male or female, ..."

5. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1881)
"KHARPUT Plain, Turkey in Asia. ib. 345. , remark on a route to, 1'6. , town of, Turkey in Asia, ib. (described, 346)—derivation of the 811, 313, 330, 335, ..."

6. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"1872. CH Eden, ' My wife and I in Queensland," p. 122 : " The bird that repaid the sportsman best was the plain turkey or bustard (Otis ..."

7. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"(1) To the bird Eupodotis austra- Jis, Gray, which is a true Bustard, but which is variously called the Native Turkey, plain turkey (from its frequenting ..."

8. Morals in Evolution: A Study in Comparative Ethics by Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1906)
"For example, a man of the plain turkey totem cannot marry a plain turkey woman. His wife will be, say, an Emu. Her children, male or female, ..."

9. Morals in Evolution: A Study in Comparative Ethics by Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1915)
"For example, a man of the plain turkey totem cannot marry a plain turkey woman. His wife will be, say, an Emu. Her children, male or female, ..."

10. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1881)
"KHARPUT Plain, Turkey in Asia. ib. 345. , remark on a route to, 1'6. , town of, Turkey in Asia, ib. (described, 346)—derivation of the 811, 313, 330, 335, ..."

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