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".

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.