Lei·po·a n. Zool. A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant.
Note: ☞ It makes large mounds of sand and vegetable material, in which its eggs are laid to be hatched by the heat of the decomposing mass.
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mal·lee bird Zool. The leipoa, or Australian moundbird; it incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds. See Leipoa.
Syn: -- mallee fowl, mallee-fowl, leipoa, lowan, Leipoa ocellata.
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Leipoa ocellata
n : Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy
mounds [syn: mallee fowl, leipoa, lowan]