scrub fowl

Questions about scrub fowl

What does scrub fowl mean?

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

What is another word for scrub fowl?

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

scrub 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.