lowann.
/ˈləʊən/, U.S. /ˈloʊən/, Australian English /ˈloʊən/ Australian.
The mallee fowl, Leipoa ocellata.
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mallee bird1849
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1847 Port Phillip Herald (Melbourne) 16 Mar. 2/5 The eggs of the Lowan, a bird frequenting the barren plains on and about the Lower Murray.
1886 W. J. Woods Visit to Victoria 24 The lowan, or native hen, has a curious practice of heaping up its eggs in the form of a pyramid, and leaving them to get hatched in the sand.
1939 Nature 12 Aug. 272/2 It [sc. a National Park] is probably..the last home of that wonderful bird—the mound builder called the lowan, which incubates its eggs in the vegetative centre of mounds which it builds.
2010 P. Carter Ground Truthing xv. 179 The flickering embers were..like a collection of lowan eggs buried in the dark about to hatch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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