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mallee fowls

mallee fowls is the plural of mallee fowl.

Meaning of mallee fowl

Noun

mallee fowl (plural mallee fowls or mallee fowl)

  1. An Australian ground-dwelling bird, Leipoa ocellata, in the megapode family.
    • He found a couple of mallee fowl who opened their mound each morning to let the autumn sun warm their eggs […].1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 401
    Synonyms:
    gnow, lowan

Questions about mallee fowls

What is mallee fowls the plural of?
Mallee fowls is the plural of mallee fowl.

Words near mallee fowls in the dictionary

  1. malled
  2. mallee
  3. mallee bird
  4. mallee birds
  5. mallee fowl
  6. mallee fowls
  7. mallee hen
  8. mallee hens
  9. malleefowl
  10. malleefowls
  11. mallees

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