mallee fowl

Questions about mallee fowl

What does mallee fowl mean?

mallee fowl means "Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds".

What is another word for mallee fowl?

Close synonyms include leipoa, lowan, Leipoa ocellata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mallee fowl a common word?

mallee fowl is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.