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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The Australian brush-turkey or mallee-bird, Leipoa ocellata, one of the megapods or mound-birds.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The Australian moundbird (Leipoa ocellata); it incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds.

WordNet 3.0

  1. 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.”

    Robbery Under Arms

  • “The lowan (Mallee hen, they’re mostly called) and talegalla (brush turkey) were thick enough in some of the scrubby corners.”

    Robbery Under Arms

  • “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.”

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