turkey hen meaning

• noun
  1. A guinea-hen (obsolete)
  2. A female turkey

• The grandmother raised her head like a parched old turkey hen crying for water.
• turkey hens lay eighty to one hundred eggs in a season
• Turkey hens like to lay a clutch of eggs and then sit on them until they hatch.
• Guinea fowl had been brought to England by Turkish traders, and the English called them turkey hens and turkey cocks.
• Turkeyhen Run was so named by a group of hunters from Virginia, who to their dismay, caught only a turkey hen.

• "turkey hen" meaning in Chinese: 雌吐绶鸡
• "turkey hen" meaning in Russian: индейка ( Meleagris gallopavo )