scrub fowl

Thesaurus

Noun

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scrub fowl - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, mound builder gallinacean, gallinaceous bird - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds family Megapodiidae, Megapodiidae - megapodes leipoa, Leipoa ocellata, lowan, mallee fowl - Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds Alectura lathami, brush turkey - black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea Macrocephalon maleo, maleo - Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches

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