family Megapodiidae

Thesaurus

Noun

1.family Megapodiidae - megapodes 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