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Webster 1913 Edition
Brush turkey
Brush′ turˊkey
.(Zool.)
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.