name
Meaning 1
A brand of bourbon whiskey from Kentucky.
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Phrase guide
Wild Turkey
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noun
Meaning 2
A large gamebird, Meleagris gallopavo, native to North America.
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noun
Meaning 3
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, turkey.
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Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: دِيك رُومِي (dīk rūmī) — Meleagris gallopavo
- Bengali: তিতির (titir) — Meleagris gallopavo
- Bulgarian: пуйка (pujka) — Meleagris gallopavo
- Bulgarian: мисирка (misirka) — Meleagris gallopavo
- Catalan: gall dindi — Meleagris gallopavo
- Chinese Mandarin: 野火雞 /野火鸡 (yěhuǒjī) — Meleagris gallopavo
- Chinese Mandarin: 火鸡 (huoji) — Meleagris gallopavo
- Czech: krocan divoký — Meleagris gallopavo
- Danish: kalkun — Meleagris gallopavo
- Dutch: kalkoen — Meleagris gallopavo
- Estonian: kalkun — Meleagris gallopavo
- Finnish: kalkkuna — Meleagris gallopavo
- French: dindon sauvage — Meleagris gallopavo
- French: dinde — Meleagris gallopavo
- Galician: pavo — Meleagris gallopavo
- German: Truthuhn — Meleagris gallopavo
- German: Wildes Truthuhn — Meleagris gallopavo
- German: Wildtruthuhn — Meleagris gallopavo
- Greek: γαλοπούλα (galopoúla) — Meleagris gallopavo
- Hebrew: תרנגול הודו \ תַּרְנְגוֹל הֹדּוּ (tarnegól hódu) — Meleagris gallopavo
- Hungarian: vadpulyka — Meleagris gallopavo
- Indonesian: kalkun — Meleagris gallopavo
- Irish: turcaí — Meleagris gallopavo
- Irish: turcach — Meleagris gallopavo
- Italian: tacchino — Meleagris gallopavo
- Japanese: 七面鳥 (shichimencho) — Meleagris gallopavo
- Korean: 칠면조 (chilmyeonjo) — Meleagris gallopavo
- Malay: Ayam Piru — Meleagris gallopavo
- Malay: Ayam Belanda — Meleagris gallopavo
- Maltese: dundjan — Meleagris gallopavo
- Norwegian Bokmål: kalkun — Meleagris gallopavo
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kalkun — Meleagris gallopavo
- Ojibwe: gichi-bine — Meleagris gallopavo
- Ojibwe: mizise — Meleagris gallopavo
- Persian: بوقلمون (bôgalamôn) — Meleagris gallopavo
- Polish: indyk — Meleagris gallopavo
- Portuguese: peru — Meleagris gallopavo
- Russian: инде́йка (indéjka) — Meleagris gallopavo
- Scottish Gaelic: cearc frangach — Meleagris gallopavo
- Spanish: pavo — Meleagris gallopavo
- Spanish: guajolote — Meleagris gallopavo
- Spanish: chumpipe — Meleagris gallopavo
- Swahili: kalkon — Meleagris gallopavo
- Turkish: hindi — Meleagris gallopavo
- Vietnamese: gà tây — Meleagris gallopavo
- Vietnamese: gà lôi — Meleagris gallopavo
- Yiddish: אינדיק (indik) — Meleagris gallopavo