• A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidae. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.
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(from the article `megapode`) Megapodes are of three kinds: scrub fowl; brush turkeys (not true turkeys); and mallee fowl, or lowan (Leipoa ocellata), which frequent the mallee, ...
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<zoology> A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidae. Also applied to several allied species of new Guinea. ... The brush turkeys live in the 'brush,' and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap of decaying vegetable matter, which generates heat sufficient to hatch the numerous eggs ...
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Brush' tur`key (Zoology) A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (
Talegalla Lathami ) of the family
Megapodidæ . Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. » The
brush turkeys live in the 'brush,' and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap of decaying vegetable ma...
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The Brush Turkey (Catheturus lathami) is a bird of the order Gallinae, native to Australia and about the size of the common turkey but blackish brown in colour and laying eggs in mounds which it creates.
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[
n] - black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
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Alectura lathami noun black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
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