Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of brush-turkey or mound-bird, Megacephalon maleo, a native of Celebes, of a glossy-black and rosy-white color, with a bare neck and head. See
Megacephalon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A bird of Celebes (
megacephalon maleo ), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
species ofturkey -likebird in themegapode family,endemic toSulawesi .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches
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Examples
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The maleo is a chicken-sized bird with a blackish back, a pink stomach, yellow facial skin, a red-orange beak and a black helmet or "casque."
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The maleo is but one of some 50 bird species threatened with extinction in this hotspot, including the caerulean paradise-flycatcher (Eutrichomyias rowleyi, CR), which was thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in 1998.
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Endemism is significant at the level of individual islands; Sulawesi has the largest fauna, with 356 species, including 96 endemics, among them the maleo (Macrocephalon maleo, EN), a distinctive megapode currently thought to number between 4,000 and 7,000 breeding pairs.
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"And the maleo birds are regular lumps, if we shoot any."
Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle George Manville Fenn 1870
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Here, too, were quite a flock of the maleo birds, scratching and searching for food, after the fashion of fowl; but as the boat stopped they took alarm, and seemed to skim over the sand, their feet striking the ground so rapidly as to become invisible.
Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle George Manville Fenn 1870
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Jack was on his right munching fruit, and Bruff on his left, sitting up, patiently attentive, waiting for bones from the hissing, hot maleo bird that had been kept for the sailors 'dinner.
Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle George Manville Fenn 1870
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The bird in question is the maleo, a chicken-sized bird that lays its eggs in sand heated by either the sun or volcanism that occurs in its habitat on the island of Sulawesi.
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The large eggs laid by the early-flying maleo will be protected from humans on the remote Sulawesi island
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The maleo, which has a blackish back, a pink stomach, yellow facial skin, a red-orange beak, lays gigantic eggs that are then buried in the sand or soil.
Signs of the Times 2009
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"I think I know them," said the captain, "a sort of brush-turkey, I expect, the maleo birds I think they are called, and they are splendid eating.
Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle George Manville Fenn 1870
vendingmachine commented on the word maleo
A kind of brush-turkey or mound-bird, Megacephalon maleo, a native of Celebes (Sulawesi*), of a glossy-black and rosy-white color, with a bare neck and head. The maleo is a chicken-sized bird with a blackish back, a pink stomach, yellow facial skin, a red-orange beak and a black helmet or "casque." The maleo is but one of some 50 bird species threatened with extinction, including the caerulean paradise-flycatcher, which was thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in 1998.
October 11, 2015
bilby commented on the word maleo
At one stage Maleo was to be the name of a 'national car' of Indonesia. Something like a rebadged Rover Metro, initially to be imported and then eventually made locally. The project collapsed in the mid-1990s with the weakening and then fall of the Soeharto regime.
October 13, 2015
bilby commented on the word maleo
Note that the term Celebes is no longer in use. The correct name is Sulawesi.
October 13, 2015
vendingmachine commented on the word maleo
Thanks, bilby. Much appreciated. Truly.
October 13, 2015
bilby commented on the word maleo
May the brakes on your turkey never fail, vendingmachine.
October 14, 2015