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Brush turkey
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Brush turkey has 1 sense
- brush turkey(n = noun.animal) alectura lathami - black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea; Array is a kind of megapode, mound-bird, mound bird, mound builder, scrub fowl
is a member of alectura, genus alectura
CIDE DICTIONARY
Brush turkey,
A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami ) of the family Megapodidæ . Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. [1913 Webster]
" The brush turkeys live in the “brush,” and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap of decaying vegetable matter, which generates heat sufficient to hatch the numerous eggs (sometimes half a bushel) deposited in it by the females of the flock."
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