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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Turk /ˈtɝk/
 土耳其人,土耳其馬

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Turk n.
 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 Muslim; esp., one living in Turkey. [Archaic]
    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. Zool. 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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Turk
      n : a native or inhabitant of Turkey