megapode

From mega- +‎ -pode, after scientific Latin Megapodius (genus name).

megapode (plural megapodes)

1. Any of several chicken- or turkey-like birds in the family Megapodiidae, which incubate their eggs by burying them where they receive warmth from decaying vegetation, solar radiation or geothermal heat. [from 19th c.]
   • 2017, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian, 28 June:

     In precocial species, such as megapodes, the young hatch with their eyes open and are ready to leave the nest within a short period of time.

• brush-turkey
• incubator bird
• moundbird
• mound-builder
• scrubfowl

megapode (comparative more megapode, superlative most megapode)

1. Characteristic of the Megapodiidae.

mega- +‎ -pode

megapode m (plural megapodi)

1. megapod, megapode

• megapodio