MEGAPODIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Megapodiidae mean? 

• MEGAPODIIDAE (noun)
  The noun MEGAPODIIDAE has 1 sense:

1. megapodes

  Familiarity information: MEGAPODIIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEGAPODIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Megapodes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Megapodiidae; Megapodiidae

Hypernyms ("Megapodiidae" is a kind of...):

bird family (a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Meronyms (members of "Megapodiidae"):

genus-Megapodius; Megapodius (type genus of the Megapodiidae)

megapode; mound-bird; mound bird; mound builder; scrub fowl (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)

Holonyms ("Megapodiidae" is a member of...):

Galliformes; order Galliformes (pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins)