Noun: lowan
- Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds
"The lowan carefully maintained the temperature of its nesting mound";
- mallee fowl, leipoa, Leipoa ocellata
Derived forms: lowans
Type of: megapode, mound bird, mound builder, mound-bird, scrub fowl
Part of: genus Leipoa
Encyclopedia: Lowan