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English noun: mound-bird

1. mound-bird (animal) large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs


Synonymsmegapode, mound bird, mound builder, scrub fowl


Broader (hypernym)gallinacean, gallinaceous bird


Narrower (hyponym)Alectura lathami, brush turkey, leipoa, Leipoa ocellata, lowan, Macrocephalon maleo, maleo, mallee fowl


Member meronymfamily Megapodiidae, Megapodiidae









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