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Megapode Megapode Meg"a*pode, n. [Mega- + Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot.]
(Zo["o]l.)
Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous
birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting
Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl
(b) under Jungle, and Leipoa.
Megapodius tumulus The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other
palms, very difficult to penetrate. -- Balfour
(Cyc. of
India).
Jungle bear (Zo["o]l.), the aswail or sloth bear.
Jungle cat (Zo["o]l.), the chaus.
Jungle cock (Zo["o]l.), the male of a jungle fowl.
Jungle fowl. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which several
species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the
fork-tailed jungle fowl (G. varius) of Java, G.
Stanleyi of Ceylon, and G. Bankiva of India.
Note: The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is
supposed to be one of the original species from which
the domestic fowl was derived.
(b) An Australian grallatorial bird (Megapodius tumulus)
which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the
latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter,
where they are hatched by the heat produced by
decomposition.
