mallee fowl
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See also: malleefowl
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]mallee fowl (plural mallee fowls or mallee fowl)
- An Australian ground-dwelling bird, Leipoa ocellata, in the megapode family.
- Synonym: gnow
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 401:
- He found a couple of mallee fowl who opened their mound each morning to let the autumn sun warm their eggs […].
Translations
[edit]Leipoa ocellata
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