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megapode

The English word “megapode” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  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.

adjective

  1. Characteristic of the Megapodiidae.

Etymology

From mega- + -pode, after scientific Latin Megapodius (genus name).

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