| 单词 | incubator-bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasincubator-bird incubator-bird n. Australian = megapode n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Megapodidae (mound-builder) megapode1840 mound-building bird1846 mound bird1855 maleo1860 mound-maker1860 mound builder1869 megapod1890 incubator-bird1943 1896 F. G. Aflalo Sketches Nat. Hist. Austral. 152 These most interesting birds do not incubate their eggs... for instead..we find them deposited in a perfectly planned, thoroughly heated incubator.] 1943 C. Barrett Austral. Animal Bk. xvii. 148 There are numerous species of Megapodes... All are ‘incubator-birds’, burying their large eggs in huge nest-mounds, to be incubated by the heat generated by decaying vegetation, or by solar heat. 1963 Times 12 Mar. (Austral. Suppl.) p. x/7 There are several kinds of megapode or incubator-birds in Australia, of which the best-known is the lowan or mallee-hen. < as lemmas |
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