mound-bird

Noun mound-bird has 1 sense

• mound-bird(n = noun.animal) megapode, mound bird, mound builder, scrub fowl - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs;
is a kind of gallinacean, gallinaceous bird
is a member of family megapodiidae, megapodiidae
has particulars: leipoa, leipoa ocellata, lowan, mallee fowl, alectura lathami, brush turkey, macrocephalon maleo, maleo