mallee-fowl

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• Mallee

  ·add. ·noun Scrub or thicket formed by the mallee. II. Mallee ·add. ·noun A dwarf Australian eucaly...

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• mallee

  n. and adj. an aboriginal word.Any one of several scrubby species of Eucalyptus in the desertparts ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Fowl

  ·noun Any bird; ·esp., any large edible bird. II. Fowl ·vi To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or ...

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• Fowl

  Several distinct Hebrew and Greek words are thus rendered in the English Bible. Of these the most co...

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• Mallee bird

  ·- The leipoa. ·see <<Leipoa>>. ...

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• mallee-bird

  n. an Australian bird, Leipoaocellata, Gould. Aboriginal name, the Lowan (q.v.);see Turkey. ...

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• mallee-hen

  n. Same as mallee-bird (q.v.). 1890. `Victorian Statutes-Game Act, Third Schedule': [Close Season...

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• mallee-scrub

  n. the «scrub,» or thicket,formed by the Mallee (q.v.). 1893. A. R. Wallace, `Australasia,' vol. i...

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• Cochin fowl

  ·- A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from Cochin China (Anam). ...

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• Dorking fowl

  ·- One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There ar...

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• Game fowl

  ·- A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males....

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• Sea fowl

  ·- Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all ...

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• scrub-fowl

  n. name applied to birds of thegenus Megapodius. See megapode. ...

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• gair-fowl

  A name of the great auk, Alca impennis. (See auk.) ...

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• barn-door fowl

  The common fowl; also so called in Scotland.--Jamieson. Never had there been such slauthering of ca...

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