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mallee fowl
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noun
an Australian bird, Leipoa ocellata, of variegated gray, brown, white, and black plumage, that lays up to 35 eggs in an incubating mound.
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Origin of mallee fowl
First recorded in 1960–65
Words nearby mallee fowl
malleable cast iron, malleable iron, malleablize, malleate, mallee, mallee fowl, mallee root, mallemuck, mallenders, malleoincudal, malleolar
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British Dictionary definitions for mallee fowl
mallee fowl
noun
an Australian megapode, Leipoa ocellata, that allows its eggs to incubate naturally in a sandy mound
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