mound-bird

Questions about mound-bird

What does mound-bird mean?

mound-bird means "large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs".

How many syllables are in mound-bird?

mound-bird has 2 syllables and divides as mound--bird under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for mound-bird?

Close synonyms include megapode, mound bird, mound builder, scrub fowl. 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 mound-bird a common word?

mound-bird 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.