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Alternative forms

• malleefowl

Noun

mallee fowl ‎(plural mallee fowls or mallee fowl)

1. An Australian ground-dwelling bird, Leipoa ocellata, in the megapode family.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 401:

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

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