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megapode
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.].
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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