mallee hen

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   adult female mallee fowl

   Broadermallee fowl

Questions about mallee hen

What does mallee hen mean?

mallee hen means "adult female mallee fowl".

Is mallee hen a common word?

mallee hen 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.