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Princeton's WordNet

  1. megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, mound builder, scrub fowlnoun

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

Wiktionary

  1. megapodenoun

    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.

  2. megapodeadjective

    Characteristic of the Megapodiidae

Wikipedia

  1. 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" and is a reference to the heavy legs and feet typical of these terrestrial birds. All are browsers, and all but the malleefowl occupy wooded habitats. Most are brown or black in color. Megapodes are superprecocial, hatching from their eggs in the most mature condition of any bird. They hatch with open eyes, bodily coordination and strength, full wing feathers, and downy body feathers, and are able to run, pursue prey, and in some species, fly on the same day they hatch.

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  1. megapode

    A megapode is a type of bird found in the Australasian region, including parts of Australia, New Guinea, and islands in the western Pacific. They are part of the family Megapodiidae and are also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, due to their unique nesting habits in which they use rotting vegetation or sand warmed by the sun to incubate their eggs, rather than sitting on them like most birds.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Megapodenoun

    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

  2. Etymology: [Mega- + Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of megapode in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of megapode in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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