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.
From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Bryde, Charles W. L.
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.
From "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901 by Becke, Louis
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.
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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