单词 | megapode |
释义 | megapode (once / 231752 pages) n WORD FAMILY megapode: megapodes USAGE EXAMPLESAnother species that finds refuge on Pagan is the endemic Micronesian megapode, which is extinct on the populated islands of Tinian, Rota, Saipan and Guam. Scientific American(Jun 13, 2012) As it is with many tens of thousands of our own little chickens, these days, the baby megapodes are born orphans. Hawksworth, Hallam, The Adventures of a Grain of Dust(2011) We only obtained one megapode on Trinkat, and it was found in a trap. Kloss, C. Boden, In the Andamans and Nicobars—The Na...(2011) n large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs Syn|Hypo|Hyper mound bird, mound builder, mound-bird, scrub fowl Leipoa ocellata, leipoa, lowan, mallee fowl Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds Alectura lathami, brush turkeyblack megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea Macrocephalon maleo, maleoCelebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches mallee henadult female mallee fowl gallinacean, gallinaceous bird heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds |
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