Word: turken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turken will gain solidarity by siding against India because mercenary Indian Moslems fought against Turkey in the British armies...
...mention was made of the fertility of these new strains. The mule (donkey and horse), as every one knows, is sterile and cannot reproduce his kind; likewise the "turken" (turkey and chicken) (TIME, Dec. 14, MISCELLANY), the "liger" and "tigon" (lion and tiger hybrids). This factor bears directly upon such hybrids' commercial value. Great would be the fortune of that showman who could advertise an "eleraffe" or "rhinocerdile," whether the animal was sterile or not. Greater would be that showman's fraud, however. It is impossible to cross animals not of the same order or family...
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...Moines, a small but red-eyed turkey gobbler was mated with a large chicken. Eggs were laid, hatched, and a barnyard hybrid stepped forth which the breeder, one Roy Beck, called a turken. "Its meat combines the delicacy of chicken with the flavor of turkey." "Turkens will bring 70c to 80c a pound next November," said Breeder Beck...
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