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    SCRUB FOWL

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("scrub fowl" 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 "scrub fowl"):

    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 ("scrub fowl" is a member of...):

    family Megapodiidae; Megapodiidae (megapodes)

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