Meaning of meleagrine | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to the genus Meleagris, including turkeys.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Having disposed of such records as we have⟳ of the extinct ancestors of the American turkeys — the so-to-speak meleagrine records — we can now pass⟳ to what is, comparatively speaking, the modern history of these famous birds, although some of this history is already several centuries old.”

“To use⟳ the district court's meleagrine analogy, one may add⟳ an additional step to the recipe: "continuing to cook⟳ the turkey until the skin is burned to a crisp."”

“The sad incident with the turkeys is hardly the first case of an improper response to wild animals that have⟳ wandered out of their natural habitat. […] Perhaps this aquiline newspaper would like⟳ to memorialize its late meleagrine friends by publishing posters or essays from Berkshire schoolchildren and scout troops.”

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