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megapode
[ meg-uh-pohd ]
noun
- any of several large-footed, short-winged gallinaceous Australasian birds of the family Megapodiidae, typically building a compostlike mound of decaying vegetation as an incubator for their eggs.
megapode
/ ˈmɛɡəˌpəʊd /
noun
- any ground-living gallinaceous bird of the family Megapodiidae, of Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands. Their eggs incubate in mounds of sand, rotting vegetation, etc, by natural heat Also calledmound-builder See also brush turkey mallee fowl
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Even worse, in high priestly sacrilege, he encouraged Jerry to attack a megapode hen in the act of laying.
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The only place where the domestication of the megapode is recorded is the island of Savo in the Solomons.
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Now the megapode of the Solomons is a distant cousin to the brush turkey of Australia.
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Wherefore, he alone of all Somo, barred rigidly by taboo, ate megapode eggs.
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The birds were a species of megapode, which are found chiefly in Australia and Borneo and the intermediate islands.
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