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mound bird
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mound bird has 1 sense
- mound bird(n = noun.animal) megapode, mound builder, mound-bird, scrub fowl - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs; Array is a kind of gallinacean, gallinaceous bird
is a member of family megapodiidae, megapodiidae
has particulars: leipoa, leipoa ocellata, lowan, mallee fowl, alectura lathami, brush turkey, macrocephalon maleo, maleo
CIDE DICTIONARY
mound bird, n.
Any of several large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia, which build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs. Called also mound builder , mound maker , megapode , brush turkey , and scrub fowl . [WordNet 1.5]
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