noun
: a West African bird ( Numida meleagris ) that is raised usually on a small scale for food in most parts of the world and that has typically a bare neck and head, the latter surmounted by a bony casque, and slaty plumage speckled with white though pale and pure white varieties occur ; broadly : any of several similar birds of continental Africa and Madagascar sometimes considered to constitute a subfamily of Phasianidae but now usually made a separate family Numididae
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