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scrub turkey

British  

noun

  1. another name for megapode

  2. another name for brush turkey

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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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