Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Same as mallee bird (Leipoa ocellata). See also leipoa.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mallee fowl’.
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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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Peter Carey's Illywhacker
Culling my "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list. Thanks for the idea, yarb.
tinea, mingy, blanco, bitzer, mallee fowl, yabbies, coir, bluey, stoush, barney, currawong, providore and 43 more...
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chained_bear "He found a couple of mallee fowl who opened their mound each morning to let the autumn sun warm their eggs, but he did not study them. The mallee fowl is too depressing and lifeless a bird to have any commercial value and my boy's mind was occupied with the idea of the pet shop in Sydney."
—Peter Carey, Illywhacker, 427 Apr 17, 2009