leipoa

[lahy-poh-uh]

noun

1. mallee fowl.

Word History and Origins

Origin of leipoa¹

< New Latin (1840), the genus name, equivalent to Greek leíp ( ein ) to leave + ōi ( ón ) egg ( oo- ) + New Latin -a -a ²; alluding to the bird's habit of leaving its eggs in a mound after laying them

Example Sentences

Leipoa, lī-pō′a, n. a genus of Australian mound-birds.

From Project Gutenberg

This, doubtless, from Mr. Bynoe's description of one he wounded on the coast in the neighbourhood of the Adelaide, must have been the Leipoa ocellata of Gould, one of the mound or tumuli-building birds, first seen in Western Australia by Mr. George Moore, and afterwards on the North-west coast, and in South Australia by Captain Grey.

From Project Gutenberg

Kal-la-ter—a truncated basket of about a foot wide at the bottom, made also of a broad kind of grass, used for carrying anything in, and especially for taking about the fragile eggs of the Leipoa.

From Project Gutenberg

Kal-la-ter--a truncated basket of about a foot wide at the bottom, made also of a broad kind of grass, used for carrying anything in, and especially for taking about the fragile eggs of the Leipoa.

From Project Gutenberg

This bird is figured in Gould's work on Australian ornithology; it is called the Leipoa ocellata.

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