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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 builder, mound-bird, 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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