Definition of Mallee hen

1. Noun. Adult female mallee fowl.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Mallee Hen

mallear prominence
mallear stripe
malleate
malleated
malleates
malleating
malleation
malleations
mallebrin
mallecho
mallechos
malled
mallee
mallee bird
mallee fowl
mallee hen (current term)
malleefowl
malleefowls
mallees
mallei
malleiform
mallein
malleinization
mallemaroking
mallemoke
mallemuck
mallemucks
mallenders
malleoincudal
malleolar

Literary usage of Mallee hen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Mallee-hen, from ist day of August to the 2Oth day of December next following in each year." 1895. ... I: "... the economy of the lowan or mallee-hen. ..."

2. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1898)
"in my opinion, it is also one of the most wonderful birds in the whole world, is the mallee hen or native pheasant. This belongs to the family of ..."

3. The Native Tribes of South-east Australia by Alfred William Howitt (1904)
"The exceptional marriages of this branch of the Wiradjuri may be illustrated by two diagrams, showing first the marriage of Ipai-mallee-hen with ..."

4. Australia and New Zealand by William Dickson Boyce (1922)
"There are two birds, the lowan, or mallee hen, and the brush turkey, which, altho separated by the whole continent, have hit upon the same labor-saving ..."

5. Australia and New Zealand by William Dickson Boyce (1922)
"There are two birds, the lowan, or mallee hen, and the brush turkey, which, altho separated by the whole continent, have hit upon the same labor-saving ..."

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