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brush-turkey

brush-turkey noun: any of several species of large birds, found in Australia and New Guinea, in the megapode (turkey-like) family Megapodiidae.

brush-turkey: any of several species of large birds, found in Australia and New Guinea, in the megapode...
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Noun

brush-turkey (plural brush-turkeys)

  1. Any of several species of large birds, found in Australia and New Guinea, in the megapode (turkey-like) family Megapodiidae.
    • We may also, I think, see in the peculiar organization of the entire family of the Megapodidæ or Brush Turkeys, a reason why they depart so widely from the usual habits of the Class of birds.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 418

brush-turkey meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

brush-turkey in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

brush-turkey in Vietnamese

Translations
gà tây bụi rậm Úc

Synonyms of brush-turkey

Forms of brush-turkey

pluralbrush-turkeys
alternative formbrush turkey
alternative formbrushturkey

Origin of brush-turkey

From brush + turkey.

Words formed from brush-turkey

  • Australian brush-turkey
  • black-billed brush-turkey
  • collared brush-turkey
  • red-billed brush-turkey
  • Waigeo brush-turkey
  • wattled brush-turkey

Questions about brush-turkey

What does brush-turkey mean?
Brush-turkey means any of several species of large birds, found in Australia and New Guinea, in the megapode (turkey-like) family Megapodiidae.
What is brush-turkey in Tamil?
Brush-turkey in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Brush-turkey meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is brush-turkey?
Brush-turkey is a noun.
What is the plural of brush-turkey?
The plural of brush-turkey is brush-turkeys.

Words near brush-turkey in the dictionary

  1. brush-tailed phascogales
  2. brush-tailed porcupine
  3. brush-tailed porcupines
  4. brush-tailed possum
  5. brush-tailed possums
  6. brush-turkey
  7. brush-turkeys
  8. brush-up
  9. brush-ups
  10. brushability
  11. brushable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brush-turkey (page history and authors); brush-turkey (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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