megapode

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Characteristic of the Megapodiidae.

词形变化

megapodes plural more megapode comparative most megapode superlative

词源

词源 1
From mega- + -pode, after scientific Latin Megapodius (genus name).
词源 2
From mega- + -pode, after scientific Latin Megapodius (genus name).
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