meg|a|pode

meg|a|pode
meg|a|pode «MEHG uh pohd», noun.
any one of a family of large-footed, fowllike birds of Australia and Indonesia, that scratch up mounds, usually of decaying vegetation, in which they bury their eggs and leave them to hatch; moundbird; mound builder.
[< New Latin Megapodius < Greek mégas great + poús, podós foot]

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