mallee fowl

or mallee-fowl

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
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Example sentences from the Web for mallee fowl

  • This means there is one genus of Mallee-Fowl in the world, and it is found only in Australia.

    An Australian Bird Book|John Albert Leach

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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