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megameter | megametre | megampère | megaphone | megaphyton | megapode | megapodiidae | megapodius | megapolis | megaptera | megaptera novaeangliae

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megapode

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun megapode has 1 sense

megapode(n = noun.animal) mound bird, mound builder, mound-bird, scrub fowl - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs; Array

is a kind of gallinacean, gallinaceous bird

is a member of family megapodiidae, megapodiidae

has particulars: leipoa, leipoa ocellata, lowan, mallee fowl, alectura lathami, brush turkey, macrocephalon maleo, maleo

CIDE DICTIONARY

megapode, n. [Mega- + Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot.].

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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

megapode, n. (also megapod) any bird of the family Megapodidae, native to Australasia, that builds a mound of debris for the incubation of its eggs, e.g. a mallee fowl.

Etymology

mod.L Megapodius (genus-name) formed as MEGA- + Gk pous podos foot

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