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Meanings
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megapode; mound builder
usually written using kana alone
Refers to any bird of the family Megapodiidae, including brush turkeys and mallee fowl. A technical zoological term; in everyday contexts, the katakana form is used.
Megapodes are birds that live in Australia and Southeast Asia.
Megapodes incubate their eggs in mounds made of soil and leaf litter.