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Megapode
/mˈɛɡəpˌəʊd/
/mˈɛɡəpˌoʊd/
Megapode
[NOUN]1
large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
Examples
1. So they check it not with the large feet for which they're named Megapode.
2. For this strange prehistoric like bird, the Megapode, the eruption is like a call to commune with the ashes.
3. This so-called mound is also seen in most other members of the birds’ family, the megapodes.
4. Or it could have been an ancestral feature that megapodes somehow retained: having an external heat source is common in reptile nests.
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