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Megapodiidae
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  Megapodiidae - megapodes family Megapodiidaebird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wingsGalliformes, order Galliformes - pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzinsgenus-Megapodius, Megapodius - type genus of the Megapodiidaemegapode, mound bird, mound-bird, scrub fowl, mound builder - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggsgenus Leipoa - mallee fowlAlectura, genus Alectura - brush turkeysgenus Macrocephalon, Macrocephalon - maleos |
Megapodiidae
Megapodiidae[‚meg·ə·pə′dī·ə‚dē] (vertebrate zoology) The mound birds and brush turkeys, a family of birds in the order Galliformes; distinguished by their method of incubating eggs in mounds of dirt or in decomposing vegetation. MedicalSeemegapodeMegapodiidae
Synonyms for Megapodiidaenoun megapodesSynonymsRelated Words- bird family
- Galliformes
- order Galliformes
- genus-Megapodius
- Megapodius
- megapode
- mound bird
- mound-bird
- scrub fowl
- mound builder
- genus Leipoa
- Alectura
- genus Alectura
- genus Macrocephalon
- Macrocephalon
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