Megapode

noun

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.nounAny of several chicken- or turkey-like birds in the family Megapodiidae, which incubate their eggs by burying them where they receive warmth from decaying vegetation, solar radiation or geothermal heat.

2.adjectiveCharacteristic of the Megapodiidae.

Synonyms

brush-turkey incubator bird mound-builder moundbird scrubfowl mound builder scrub fowl megapodid mound bird tabon mallee fowl megapodagrionid

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