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Adjective

meleagrine ‎(not comparable)

1. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the genus Meleagris, including turkeys.
   • 1914, Edward A. McIlhenny, The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting, Doubleday (1914), page 39:

     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.

   • 2003, United States Patents Quarterly, Volume 65, page 1968:

     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."

   • 2005, "Henpecking is not the solution", The Berkshire Eagle, 11 October 2005:

     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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