/meg"euh pohd'/ , n.
any of several large-footed, short-winged gallinaceous Australasian birds of the family Megapodiidae, typically building a compostlike mound of decaying vegetation as an incubator for their eggs. Also called brush turkey, moundbird, mound builder, scrub fowl .
[ 1855-60; Megapodius genus name. See MEGA-, -POD ]