MEGAPODE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does megapode mean? 

• MEGAPODE (noun)
  The noun MEGAPODE has 1 sense:

1. large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs

  Familiarity information: MEGAPODE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEGAPODE (noun)

Meaning:

Large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

megapode; mound bird; mound-bird; scrub fowl; mound builder

Hypernyms ("megapode" is a kind of...):

gallinacean; gallinaceous bird (heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "megapode"):

leipoa; Leipoa ocellata; lowan; mallee fowl (Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds)

Alectura lathami; brush turkey (black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea)

Macrocephalon maleo; maleo (Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches)

Holonyms ("megapode" is a member of...):

family Megapodiidae; Megapodiidae (megapodes)