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maleos

maleos is the plural of maleo.

Meaning of maleo

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

Questions about maleos

What is maleos the plural of?
Maleos is the plural of maleo.

Words near maleos in the dictionary

  1. Malenkovism
  2. maleo
  3. maleocracies
  4. maleocracy
  5. maleolent
  6. maleos
  7. malepart
  8. malepractice
  9. malepractices
  10. maler
  11. Malerkotla

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