lowan
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- noun
- Australian
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lowan
Examples
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It's just like you, that when you finally take one small step away from Flap, it's with a married, unavailable, older lowan.
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The lowan builds its nest by creating large sandy mounds filled with soil and plants.
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During our visit to Australia, we saw a lowan diligently incubating its eggs in a carefully constructed mound.
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The lowan, known for its unique nesting habits, is an important bird species in the Australian ecosystem.
Synonyms
A large Australian bird called the malleefowl that keeps its eggs warm in big sandy mounds
A large Australian ground bird that builds big sand mounds to keep its eggs warm
A large female ground bird from Australia that builds big nesting mounds and looks after eggs
A large Australian bird that builds a sandy nest and uses natural heat to warm its eggs
A large bird with big feet that builds mounds of dead plants to keep its eggs warm
A bird with large feet that builds piles of dead plants to keep its eggs warm
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word lowan comes from an Australian Aboriginal word for the malleefowl, a ground bird that builds large sandy mounds to 'incubate' its eggs. Because people used the local name, lowan now means that special Australian bird.