megapoden.

Brit.

/ˈmɛɡəpəʊd/, U.S.

/ˈmɛɡəˌpoʊd/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps modelled on a Latin lexical item, or perhaps modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: mega- comb. form, -pode comb. form.

Etymology: < mega- comb. form + -pode comb. form, after scientific Latin Megapodius, genus name (P. Gaimard, in a memoir read to the Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris on 6 June 1823), or French mégapode (1823, also P. Gaimard). Compare also scientific Latin Megapodiidae, family name (1839 in Penny Cycl., after earlier Megapodinae (1837)).

Any of various brown or black gallinaceous birds of the Australasian family Megapodiidae, which have large strong feet and incubate their eggs using heat from decomposition or from solar or geothermal energy, esp. by building large mounds of sand, vegetable debris, etc.

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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

1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 248 The Megapodes (Megapodius, Lesson),—A genus recently discovered in New Guinea.

1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. V. Pl. 79 (caption) Megapodius tumulus, Gould. Mound-raising Megapode.

1857 W. S. Dallas Carpenter's Zool. (rev. ed.) I. 484 The family of Megapodidæ, or Megapodes, is peculiar to Australia and the adjacent islands.

1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life i. 4 The strange mound-building megapodes.

1900 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 500 The remarkable Megapode birds.

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.

1980 Nature 24 Jan. 381/1 Dinosaur egg morphology indicates a pattern of nest construction similar to that of crocodilians and megapodes (chicken-like, terrestrial birds of Australasia).

Derivatives

megaˈpodan adj. and n. rare (a) adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of a megapode; (b) n. a megapode.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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1890 Cent. Dict. Megapodan a. and n.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	megapode
释义	megapoden. Brit. /ˈmɛɡəpəʊd/, U.S. /ˈmɛɡəˌpoʊd/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps modelled on a Latin lexical item, or perhaps modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: mega- comb. form, -pode comb. form. Etymology: < mega- comb. form + -pode comb. form, after scientific Latin Megapodius, genus name (P. Gaimard, in a memoir read to the Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris on 6 June 1823), or French mégapode (1823, also P. Gaimard). Compare also scientific Latin Megapodiidae, family name (1839 in Penny Cycl., after earlier Megapodinae (1837)). Any of various brown or black gallinaceous birds of the Australasian family Megapodiidae, which have large strong feet and incubate their eggs using heat from decomposition or from solar or geothermal energy, esp. by building large mounds of sand, vegetable debris, etc. 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 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 248 The Megapodes (Megapodius, Lesson),—A genus recently discovered in New Guinea. 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. V. Pl. 79 (caption) Megapodius tumulus, Gould. Mound-raising Megapode. 1857 W. S. Dallas Carpenter's Zool. (rev. ed.) I. 484 The family of Megapodidæ, or Megapodes, is peculiar to Australia and the adjacent islands. 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life i. 4 The strange mound-building megapodes. 1900 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 500 The remarkable Megapode birds. 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. 1980 Nature 24 Jan. 381/1 Dinosaur egg morphology indicates a pattern of nest construction similar to that of crocodilians and megapodes (chicken-like, terrestrial birds of Australasia). Derivatives megaˈpodan adj. and n. rare (a) adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of a megapode; (b) n. a megapode.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Megapodan a. and n. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840
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