Megapode definitions

Megapode

1) Aptly named heavy-footed bird 2) Gallinacean 3) Gallinaceous bird 4) Mound bird 5) Mound builder 6) Mound-bird 7) Scrub fowl
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Megapode

1) Leipoa 2) Lowan 3) Maleo
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Megapode

The megapodes, also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family Megapodiidae. Their name literally means `large foot` (Greek: mega = large, poda = foot), and is a reference to the heavy legs and feet typical of these terrestrial birds. All are browsers, all.....
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Megapode

• (n.) Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl (b) under Jungle, and Leipoa.
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megapode

(family Megapodiidae), any of 12 species of Australasian chickenlike birds (order Galliformes) that bury their eggs to hatch them. Most species rely ... [4 related articles]
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Megapode

Meg'a·pode noun [ Mega- + Greek poy`s , podo`s , foot.] (Zoology) Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa , inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl (b) ...
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megapode

[n] - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia
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megapode

mound bird noun large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
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megapode

Any of a group of chickenlike birds found in the Malay Archipelago and Australia. They pile up large mounds of vegetable matter, earth, and sand 4 m/13 ft across, in which to deposit their eggs, then cover the eggs and leave them to be incubated by the heat produced by the rotting vegetation. There are 19 species, all large birds, 50–70 cm...
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