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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 eggs
Familiarity information: MOUND BIRD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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