water turkey

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   blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions

   SynonymsAnhinga anhinga

   Broadersnakebird

Questions about water turkey

What does water turkey mean?

water turkey means "blackish New World snakebird of swampy regions".

What is another word for water turkey?

Close synonyms include Anhinga anhinga. 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 water turkey a common word?

water 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.