brush turkey Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea
    Alectura lathami.

WordNet

Brush" tur`key
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. ✍ The brush turkeys live in the "brush," and construct a common nest by collecting a large heap of decaying vegetable matter, which generates heat sufficient to hatch the numerous eggs (sometimes half a bushel) deposited in it by the females of the flock.

Webster 1913