| 单词 | scrub fowl |
| 释义 | scrub fowl (once / 393978 pages) n WORD FAMILY scrub fowl: scrub fowls USAGE EXAMPLESThe spot, bare of grass, was about twenty yards from the edge of a fairly thick, low-growing scrub where scrub fowls are plentiful. Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James), My Tropic Isle(2010) Although there is no permanent fresh water, the pencil-tailed rat leaves numerous tracks on the sand, and scrub fowls keep the whole surface perpetually raked. Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James), Confessions of a Beachcomber(2010) A more unlikely spot for a scrub fowl to lay, could hardly be imagined. Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James), My Tropic Isle(2010) n large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs Syn|Hypo|Hyper megapode, mound bird, mound builder, mound-bird Leipoa ocellata, leipoa, lowan, mallee fowl Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds Alectura lathami, brush turkeyblack megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea Macrocephalon maleo, maleoCelebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches mallee henadult female mallee fowl gallinacean, gallinaceous bird heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds |
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