scrub turkey
Britishnoun
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another name for megapode
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another name for brush turkey
Example Sentences
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Then the long-suffering storekeeper stopped credit, and for a while we lived on what we could grow, with scrub turkey, and once or twice bandicoot.
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We spent a pleasant hour with this man, and returned home by a different route, in the hope of getting a "plain" turkey—an altogether different bird from the "scrub" turkey.
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Feeling hungry as the morning went on, he penetrated a thick scrub in the hope of finding a scrub turkey's nest.
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This was to consist of roast scrub turkey and plum pudding, washed down by Battle axe brandy.
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Possibly the track deviated to follow the run of a scrub turkey, or because the boys knew of a scrub hen's mound, where the rich pink eggs were raked out by the gins.
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