'Brush turkey' definitions:

Definition of 'brush turkey'

noun

Black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea [syn: brush turkey, Alectura lathami]

From: GCIDE

Brush turkey \Brush" tur`key\ (Zool.) A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia ({Talegalla Lathami}) of the family Megapodid[ae]. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea. [1913 Webster]
Note: 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. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Megapode \Meg"a*pode\ (m[e^]g"[.a]*p[=o]d), n. [Mega- + Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot.] (Zool.) Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. Called also {mound builder}, scrub fowl, moundbird, and brush turkey. See Jungle fowl (b) under Jungle, and Leipoa. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

moundbird \moundbird\, mound bird \mound bird\n. (Zool.) Any of several large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia, which build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs. Called also mound builder, mound maker, megapode, brush turkey, and scrub fowl.
Syn: megapode, mound builder, scrub fowl, brush turkey. [WordNet 1.5]