Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The Australian brush-turkey or mallee-bird, Leipoa ocellata, one of the megapods or mound-birds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The Australian moundbird (Leipoa ocellata); it incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds
Examples
“Warrigal used to get the lowan eggs -- beautiful pink thin-shelled ones they are, first-rate to eat, and one of 'em a man's breakfast.”
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
“The lowan (Mallee hen, they're mostly called) and talegalla (brush turkey) were thick enough in some of the scrubby corners.”
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
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“Warrigal used to get the lowan eggs — beautiful pink thin-shelled ones they are, first-rate to eat, and one of ’em a man’s breakfast.”
“The lowan (Mallee hen, they’re mostly called) and talegalla (brush turkey) were thick enough in some of the scrubby corners.”
“If the latter is Hispanic or Black or Mississippian, lowan, Appalachian, or Yankee; Baptist or Catholic or Lutheran or Jewish or Episcopalian: German or Orangeman or Irish or Slav; urban or rural ” in each such case, one would expect to find significant differences in symbol systems.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lowan’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Australian Fauna
endemic species of terra australis
phascogale, wombat, ornithoryncus, wambenger, tuan, potoroo, platypus, echidna, bilby, bandicoot, antechinus, numbat and 101 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 723 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lowan.

reesetee See malleefowl. Feb 8, 2008