| mound bird 
 
 large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia;
 build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
 • Syn:
 megapode, mound-bird, mound builder, scrub fowl
 • Hypernyms:
 gallinaceous bird, gallinacean
 • Hyponyms:
 mallee fowl, leipoa, lowan, Leipoa ocellata, brush turkey,
 Alectura lathami, maleo, Macrocephalon maleo
 • Member Holonyms:
 Megapodiidae, family Megapodiidae
 
 
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