The noun TURKEY has 5 senses: 1. large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food. 2. a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923. 3. a person who does something thoughtless or annoying.
adjective bewildering, complicated, puzzling, misleading, unclear, baffling, muddling, contradictory, ambiguous, inconsistent, perplexing, clear as mud (informal) The statement they issued was highly confusing.
Ambiguity means confusion about what is conveyed, since the current context may lead to different interpretations of meaning. Many words in many languages have multiple definitions. Ambiguity is an effect of a rupture of the rule of identity in the context of the exchange of information.