- megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, mound builder, scrub fowl - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs
--1 is a kind of gallinaceous bird, gallinacean
--1 is a member of Megapodiidae, family Megapodiidae
--1 has particulars:mallee fowl, leipoa, lowan, Leipoa ocellata; brush turkey, Alectura lathami; maleo, Macrocephalon maleo