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bury | megapode |

As a proper noun bury

is a metropolitan borough of greater manchester, england.

As a noun megapode is

any of several chicken- or turkey-like birds in the family megapodiidae , which incubate their eggs by burying them where they receive warmth from decaying vegetation, solar radiation or geothermal heat.

As an adjective megapode is

characteristic of the megapodiidae.

bury

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) burien, berien, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
  • To place in the ground.
  • (transitive, often, figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
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  • (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
  • (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Give me a bowl of wine. / In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.
  • (figuratively) To score a goal.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 25, author=Paul Fletcher, work=BBC
    • , title= Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1) , passage=You could feel the relief after Bendtner collected Wilshere's raking pass before cutting inside Carlos Edwards and burying his shot beyond Fulop.}}
  • (slang) To kill or murder.
    • Derived terms
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    Related terms
    * burial * burian * bury the hatchet

    Noun

    (buries)
  • (lb) A .
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury , and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

    • References

    Etymology 2

    See (borough).

    Noun

    (buries)
  • A borough; a manor
  • * 1843 , , book 2, ch. 5, "Twelfth Century"
    • Indisputable, though very dim to modern vision, rests on its hill-slope that same Bury , Stow, or Town of St. Edmund; already a considerable place, not without traffic

    Anagrams

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    megapode

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several chicken- or turkey-like birds in the family Megapodiidae , which incubate their eggs by burying them where they receive warmth from decaying vegetation, solar radiation or geothermal heat.

    • Synonyms

    * brush-turkey * incubator bird * moundbird * mound-builder * scrubfowl

    Derived terms

    * Biak megapode, Megapodius geelvinkianus * dusky megapode Megapodius freycinet * Forsten's megapode, Megapodius forstenii * Melanesian megapode, Megapodius eremita * Micronesian megapode , Megapodius laperouse * Moluccan megapode, Eulipoa wallacei * New Guinea megapode, Megapodius decollatus * Nicobar megapode, Megapodius nicobariensis * orange-footed megapode, Megapodius reinwardt * Philippine megapode, Megapodius cumingii * Polynesian megapode, Megapodius pritchardii * Sula megapode, Megapodius bernsteinii * Tanimbar megapode, Megapodius tenimberensis * Tongan megapode * Vanuatu megapode, Megapodius layardi

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of the Megapodiidae
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