megapode

noun

  1. 1

    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.

adjective

  1. 1

    Characteristic of the Megapodiidae.

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