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Cosa (chi) è megapode - definizione

BIRD FAMILY
Megapodiidae; Megapodidae; Mound Bird; Mound bird; Mound builder (bird); Megapodes; Mound-builder (bird)

megapode         
['m?g?p??d]
¦ noun a large ground-dwelling Australasian or SE Asian bird that builds a large mound of plant debris to incubate its eggs. [Family Megapodiidae: several species.]
Origin
C19: from mod. L. Megapodius (genus name), from mega- + Gk pous, pod- 'foot'.
Megapode         
·noun 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.
Pile-builder megapode         
SPECIES OF BIRD
Megapodius molistructor; Pile-builder Scrubfowl; Pile-builder Megapode; Pile-builder scrubfowl
The pile-builder megapodeSteadman, David William (2006): Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds. University of Chicago Press.

Wikipedia

Megapode

The megapodes, also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family Megapodiidae. Their name literally means "large foot" and is a reference to the heavy legs and feet typical of these terrestrial birds. All are browsers, and all but the malleefowl occupy wooded habitats. Most are brown or black in color. Megapodes are superprecocial, hatching from their eggs in the most mature condition of any bird. They hatch with open eyes, bodily coordination and strength, full wing feathers, and downy body feathers, and are able to run, pursue prey, and in some species, fly on the same day they hatch.

Esempi dal corpus di testo per megapode
1. Both regions boast enormous biodiversity: Kingman Reef and other islands in the central Pacific area teem with sharks and other top predators as well as vibrant, healthy corals; the Mariana Trench and its nearby islands are home to several species of rare beaked whales and the Micronesian megapode –– an endangered bird that uses the heat from volcanic vents to incubate its eggs –– and also boast mud volcanoes, pools of boiling sulfur and the greatest microbial diversity on Earth.