mallee fowl

See also: malleefowl

English

Alternative forms

• malleefowl

Noun

mallee fowl (plural mallee fowls or mallee fowl)

1. An Australian ground-dwelling bird, Leipoa ocellata, in the megapode family.

   Synonym: gnow

   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 401:

     He found a couple of mallee fowl who opened their mound each morning to let the autumn sun warm their eggs […].

Translations

Leipoa ocellata

• Finnish: malleekana (fi)
• French: léipoa ocellé m
• Hungarian: homoki ásótyúk, homoki lábastyúk, máleó
• Russian: гла́зчатая ку́рица (ru) f (glázčataja kúrica)