Meanings
- not comparablebiologyOf or pertaining to the genus Meleagris, including turkeys.
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."
2003, United States Patents Quarterly, volume 65, page 19682 more examples
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.
1914, Edward A. McIlhenny, The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting, Doubleday, page 39The 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.
11 October 2005, “Henpecking is not the solution”, in The Berkshire Eagle
Origin
- Latinmeleagris“turkey”
- Englishmeleagrine
From Latin meleagris (“turkey”) + -ine.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish kalkkuna-, kalkkunan sukuinen
- kalkkuna-of or pertaining to the genus Meleagris
- kalkkunan sukuinenof or pertaining to the genus Meleagris
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