English Dictionary

turbo chook

名詞

オーストラリア英語 俗語

(Australia, slang) Tribonyx mortierii, a flightless bird related to rails and coots.

日本語の意味

（オーストラリアのスラング）Tribonyx mortieriiに属する、飛べない鳥。レールやヒヨドリ類に関連する鳥として知られる

As we drove across the Tasmanian plains, a turbo chook strode confidently between the grass tussocks, its squat body and long legs unmistakable.

タスマニアの平原を車で走っていると、タスマニアのネイティブヘン（飛べないクイナの仲間）が草の塊の間を堂々と歩いているのが見え、そのずんぐりした体と長い脚は一目でわかった。

意味（1）

(Australia, slang) Tribonyx mortierii, a flightless bird related to rails and coots.

All of which means that the nice neat pattern suggested by other Tasmanian endemic birds isn't a template for all its endemics: did the turbo chooks evolve on the mainland (and, if so, why did they lose their flight powers there?) and later run to Tasmania, or did they evolve in Tasmania and cross to the mainland during an earlier glacial period?

turbo chooks （ plural ）