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WATER TURKEY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water turkey mean?
• WATER TURKEY (noun)
The noun WATER TURKEY has 1 sense:
1. blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions
Familiarity information: WATER TURKEY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Anhinga anhinga; water turkey
Hypernyms ("water turkey" is a kind of...):
anhinga; darter; snakebird (fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill)
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