megapode
- 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.
- Adjective. Characteristic of the Megapodiidae.
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