ALECTURA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alectura mean? 

• ALECTURA (noun)
  The noun ALECTURA has 1 sense:

1. brush turkeys

  Familiarity information: ALECTURA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALECTURA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brush turkeys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Alectura; genus Alectura

Hypernyms ("Alectura" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Alectura"):

Alectura lathami; brush turkey (black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea)

Holonyms ("Alectura" is a member of...):

family Megapodiidae; Megapodiidae (megapodes)