turkey vs poultry

turkey and poultry both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
turkey	Yes	No	No	No
poultry	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, poultry is a hypernym of turkey; that is, poultry is a word with a broader meaning than turkey:

turkey: large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
poultry: a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl

Other hypernyms of turkey include domestic fowl, fowl.

As nouns, poultry is a hypernym of turkey; that is, poultry is a word with a broader meaning than turkey:

turkey (noun)	poultry (noun)
large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food	a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual	flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
a person who does something thoughtless or annoying