noun
large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
• Syn: ↑megapode, ↑mound bird, ↑mound-bird, ↑mound builder
• Hypernyms: ↑gallinaceous bird, ↑gallinacean
• Hyponyms:
↑mallee fowl, ↑leipoa, ↑lowan, ↑Leipoa ocellata, ↑brush turkey, ↑Alectura lathami, ↑maleo, ↑Macrocephalon maleo
• Member Holonyms: ↑Megapodiidae, ↑family Megapodiidae
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noun or scrub hen : megapode
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megapode.
[1940-45]
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scrub turkey or scrub fowl noun
A type of ground-living bird of the Australian scrub, a mound-builder
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Main Entry: ↑scrub
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scrub fowl,
= scrub hen. (Cf. ↑scrub hen)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.