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Noun: brush turkey  brúsh'tur-kee
  1. Black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
    "The brush turkey builds large mounds of vegetation to incubate its eggs";
    - Alectura lathami

Derived forms: brush turkeys

Type of: megapode, mound bird, mound builder, mound-bird, scrub fowl

Part of: Alectura, genus Alectura

Encyclopedia: Brush turkey