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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Also called leipoa, lowan.

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

How to use mallee fowl in a sentence

It is a multimillion-dollar business in which roughly 15 million fowl die a year.
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It all began, the consensus seems to be, with the red jungle fowl.
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Like all fowl, turkeys tend to go quiet when held upside down.
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They had planned dinners together every night and ate guinea fowl, duck and other “interesting” dishes.
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But it was her light dinner—typically a broth with vegetables and either chicken or guinea fowl—that Wheeler saw as key.
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He stirred the smoldering ashes till the broiled fowl began to sizzle afresh.
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Water-fowl that had not moved at the first alarm now sprang in myriads from reeds and sedges, and darkened the very air.
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Chloride of Lime … bad smell … bad egg … white of egg … fowl … grain … flour … flour and water … milk fluid … milk.
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The Chinese esteem it as a great delicacy and mix it with fowl and vegetables.
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The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself or caught by a beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

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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