plain turkey

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   popular Australian game bird

   SynonymsChoriotis australis

   Broaderbustard

   Part ofChoriotis

Questions about plain turkey

What does plain turkey mean?

plain turkey means "popular Australian game bird".

What is another word for plain turkey?

Close synonyms include Choriotis australis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plain turkey a common word?

plain turkey is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.