megapode

  1. Noun.  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.
  2. Adjective.  Characteristic of the Megapodiidae.

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