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leipoa
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun leipoa has 1 sense
- leipoa(n = noun.animal) leipoa ocellata, lowan, mallee fowl - Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds; Array is a kind of megapode, mound-bird, mound bird, mound builder, scrub fowl
is a member of genus leipoa
has particulars: mallee hen
CIDE DICTIONARY
leipoa, n. [NL.].
A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata ), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant . [1913 Webster]
" It makes large mounds of sand and vegetable material, in which its eggs are laid to be hatched by the heat of the decomposing mass."
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