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Definition: Megapode |
MegapodeNoun1. Large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Megapode \Meg"a*pode\, noun. [Mega- Greek poy`s, podo`s, foot.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Megapode" is a common misspelling or typo for: megaphone, megaspore. |
Synonyms: MegapodeSynonyms: mound builder (n), moundbird (n), scrub fowl (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Megapode |
| English words defined with "megapode": Alectura lathami ♦ brush turkey ♦ Macrocephalon maleo, maleo. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
megapode polynesian | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "megapode": megapodes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "megapode" (pronounced 'Meg"a*pode'): Antipode, hemipode, Lycopode, Melampode, Metapode, Monopode, Sympode. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-m-o-p" | |
-1 letter: megapod. | |
-2 letters: apogee, degame, oedema, pomade. | |
-3 letters: adeem, dogma, edema, epode, gamed, gaped, geode, moped, omega, paged, pagod, peage. | |
-4 letters: aged, agee, aped, apod, dago, dame, damp, deem, deep, deme, demo, doge, dome, dopa, dope, edge, egad, gaed, game, gamp, gape, geed, goad, made, mage, mead, meed, mode, mope, odea, ogam, ogee, oped, page. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-m-o-p" | |
+1 letter: megapodes. | |
+2 letters: megaphoned. | |
+3 letters: demographer, deprogramed, reprogramed. | |
+4 letters: demographers, demographies, deprogrammed, deprogrammer, mimeographed, preprogramed, reprogrammed. | |
+5 letters: deprogrammers, overprogramed, preprogrammed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 67 61 70 6F 64 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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