meleagrine
/ˌmɛl.iˈeɪ.ɡɹaɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the genus Meleagris, including turkeys.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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.""
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: ine
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌmɛl.iˈeɪ.ɡɹaɪn/