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maleo

maleo noun: macrocephalon maleo, a species of turkey-like bird in the megapode family, endemic to Sulawesi.

Noun

maleo (plural maleos)

  1. Macrocephalon maleo, a species of turkey-like bird in the megapode family, endemic to Sulawesi.
    • It is in this loose, hot, black sand that those singular birds, the "Maleos" deposit their eggs.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 413

maleo meaning in Tamil

maleo in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

Forms of maleo

pluralmaleos

Origin of maleo

The common term for megapodes (including the maleo) in various Celebic languages of the Sulawesi region; introduced as a common name by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1826, and as a species epithet by German naturalist Salomon Müller in 1846.

Questions about maleo

What does maleo mean?
Maleo means macrocephalon maleo, a species of turkey-like bird in the megapode family, endemic to Sulawesi.
What is maleo in Tamil?
Maleo in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Maleo meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is maleo?
Maleo is a noun.
What is the plural of maleo?
The plural of maleo is maleos.

Words near maleo in the dictionary

  1. malengine
  2. Malenglish
  3. Malenko
  4. Malenkov
  5. Malenkovism
  6. maleo
  7. maleocracies
  8. maleocracy
  9. maleolent
  10. maleos
  11. malepart

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: maleo (page history and authors); maleo (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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