Noun: scrub fowl skrúb fawl
- Large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
"The scrub fowl's unique nesting behaviour fascinated the ornithologists";
- megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, mound builder
Derived forms: scrub fowl
Type of: gallinacean, gallinaceous bird
Part of: family Megapodiidae, Megapodiidae