family Megapodiidae

Thesaurus

Noun

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family Megapodiidae - megapodes         Megapodiidae bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings Galliformes, order Galliformes - pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins genus-Megapodius, Megapodius - type genus of the Megapodiidae megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, scrub fowl, mound builder - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs genus Leipoa - mallee fowl Alectura, genus Alectura - brush turkeys genus Macrocephalon, Macrocephalon - maleos

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