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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a native or inhabitant of Turkey

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French or Turkish; Anglo-French Turc, from Medieval Latin or Turkish; Medieval Latin Turcus, from Turkish Türk Date: 14th century 1. a member of any of numerous Asian peoples speaking Turkic languages who live in a region extending from the Balkans to eastern Siberia and western China 2. a native or inhabitant of Turkey 3. Muslim; specifically a Muslim subject of the Turkish sultan 4. a Turkish horse; specifically a Turkish strain of Arab and crossbred horses 5. often not capitalized a usually young dynamic person eager for change; especially young Turk

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a a native or national of Turkey in SE Europe and Asia Minor. b a person of Turkish descent. 2 a member of a Central Asian people from whom the Ottomans derived, speaking Turkic languages. 3 offens. a ferocious, wild, or unmanageable person. Phrases and idioms: Turk's cap a martagon lily or other plant with turban-like flowers. Turk's head a turban-like ornamental knot. Etymology: ME, = F Turc, It. etc. Turco, med.L Turcus, Pers. & Arab. Turk, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from the Prunus domestica are described; among them the greengage, the Orleans, the purple gage, or Reine Claude Violette, and the German prune, are some of the best known. Note: Among the true plums are; Beach plum, the Prunus maritima, and its crimson or purple globular drupes, Bullace plum. See Bullace. Chickasaw plum, the American Prunus Chicasa, and its round red drupes. Orleans plum, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size, much grown in England for sale in the markets. Wild plum of America, Prunus Americana, with red or yellow fruit, the original of the Iowa plum and several other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other genera than Prunus, are; Australian plum, Cargillia arborea and C. australis, of the same family with the persimmon. Blood plum, the West African H[ae]matostaphes Barteri. Cocoa plum, the Spanish nectarine. See under Nectarine. Date plum. See under Date. Gingerbread plum, the West African Parinarium macrophyllum. Gopher plum, the Ogeechee lime. Gray plum, Guinea plum. See under Guinea. Indian plum, several species of Flacourtia. 2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin. 3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of [pounds]100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. Plum bird, Plum budder (Zo["o]l.), the European bullfinch. Plum gouger (Zo["o]l.), a weevil, or curculio (Coccotorus scutellaris), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. Plum weevil (Zo["o]l.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the pulp around the stone. Called also turk, and plum curculio. See Illust. under Curculio.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Turk Turk, n. [Per. Turk; probably of Tartar origin: cf. F. Turc.] 1. A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey. 2. A native or inhabitant of Turkey. 3. A Mohammedan; esp., one living in Turkey. It is no good reason for a man's religion that he was born and brought up in it; for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian. --Chillingworth. 4. (Zo["o]l.) The plum weevil. See Curculio, and Plum weevil, under Plum. Turk's cap. (Bot.) (a) Turk's-cap lily. See under Lily. (b) A tulip. (c) A plant of the genus Melocactus; Turk's head. See Melon cactus, under Melon. Turk's head. (a) (Naut.) A knot of turbanlike form worked on a rope with a piece of small line. --R. H. Dana, Jr. (b) (Bot.) See Turk's cap (c) above. Turk's turban (Bot.), a plant of the genus Ranunculus; crowfoot.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(Turks) A Turk is a Turkish citizen, or a person of Turkish origin. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Ottoman, Mahometan.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A cruel, hard-hearted man. Turkish treatment; barbarous usage. Turkish shore; Lambeth, Southwark, and Rotherhithe side of the Thames.