megapode Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
    mound bird; scrub fowl; mound-bird; mound builder.

WordNet

Meg"a*pode noun
Etymology
Mega- + Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl (b) under Jungle, and Leipoa.

Webster 1913