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megapode
"A large ground-dwelling Australasian and SE Asian bird that builds a large mound of debris to incubate its eggs by the heat of decomposition", Mid 19th century: from
modern Latin
Megapodius
(genus name), from
mega-
'large' + Greek
pous
,
pod-
'foot'.