megapode

See also: mégapode

English

Noun

megapode (plural megapodes)

  1. Any 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.

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Adjective

megapode (comparative more megapode, superlative most megapode)

  1. Characteristic of the Megapodiidae.

Italian

Etymology

mega- + -pode

Noun

megapode m (plural megapodi)

  1. megapod, megapode

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