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MOUND BIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mound bird mean? 

MOUND BIRD (noun)
  The noun MOUND BIRD has 1 sense:

1. large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggsplay

  Familiarity information: MOUND BIRD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOUND BIRD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

megapode; mound-bird; mound bird; mound builder; scrub fowl

Hypernyms ("mound bird" is a kind of...):

gallinacean; gallinaceous bird (heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mound bird"):

leipoa; Leipoa ocellata; lowan; mallee fowl (Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds)

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

Macrocephalon maleo; maleo (Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches)

Holonyms ("mound bird" is a member of...):

family Megapodiidae; Megapodiidae (megapodes)


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