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BRUSH TURKEY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brush turkey mean?
• BRUSH TURKEY (noun)
The noun BRUSH TURKEY has 1 sense:
1. black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
Familiarity information: BRUSH TURKEY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Alectura lathami; brush turkey
Hypernyms ("brush turkey" is a kind of...):
megapode; mound-bird; mound bird; mound builder; scrub fowl (large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs)
Holonyms ("brush turkey" is a member of...):
Alectura; genus Alectura (brush turkeys)
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