单词 | megapode |
释义 | megapode /meg"euh pohd'/, n. any of several large-footed, short-winged gallinaceous Australasian birds of the family Megapodiidae, typically building a compostlike mound of decaying vegetation as an incubator for their eggs. Also called brush turkey, moundbird, mound builder, scrub fowl. [1855-60; < NL Megapodius genus name. See MEGA-, -POD] |
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