mallee fowl
or mal·lee-fowl
noun
an Australian bird, Leipoa ocellata, of variegated gray, brown, white, and black plumage, that lays up to 35 eggs in an incubating mound.
Origin of mallee fowl
First recorded in 1960–65
Words nearby mallee fowl
malleable cast iron,
malleable iron,
malleablize,
malleate,
mallee,
mallee fowl,
mallee root,
mallemuck,
mallenders,
malleoincudal,
malleolar
Example sentences from the Web for mallee fowl
This means there is one genus of Mallee-Fowl in the world, and it is found only in Australia.
An Australian Bird Book |John Albert Leach
British Dictionary definitions for mallee fowl
mallee fowl
noun
an Australian megapode, Leipoa ocellata, that allows its eggs to incubate naturally in a sandy mound