Search Result:guinea
KK Pronunciation
〔 `gInI 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˋ^ini 〕
Overview of noun guinea
The noun guinea has 4 senses
- guinea -- (a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings)
- wop, dago, ginzo, Guinea, greaseball -- ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent)
- Guinea, Republic of Guinea, French Guinea -- (a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a French colony; achieved independence from France in 1958)
- guinea fowl, guinea, Numida meleagris -- (a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world)