turkey
turkey 英 [ˈtɜ:ki] 美 [ˈtɜrki]
n. 火鸡；
名词复数:turkeys
- A turkey is a big bird that looks a bit like a huge chicken. If you've ever celebrated Thanksgiving in the U.S. or Canada, you've probably seen the large fowl turkey cooked and taking center stage at the elaborate holiday meal.
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- n. 火鸡；
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1. roast turkey
烤火鸡肉
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2. They eat up that turkey.
他们吃光了那只火鸡。
- Turkey country name, late 14c., from Medieval Latin Turchia, from Turcus (see Turk) + -ia.
- turkey (n.) 1540s, originally "guinea fowl" (Numida meleagris), a bird imported from Madagascar via Turkey, and called guinea fowl when brought by Portuguese traders from West Africa. The larger North American bird (Meleagris gallopavo) was domesticated by the Aztecs, introduced to Spain by conquistadors (1523) and thence to wider Europe. The word turkey first was applied to it in English 1550s because it was identified with or treated as a species of the guinea fowl, and/or because it got to the rest of Europe from Spain by way of North Africa, then under Ottoman (Turkish) rule. Indian corn was originally turkey corn or turkey wheat in English for the same reason.
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