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Chicken vs Megapode - What's the difference?

chicken | megapode |

As a proper noun chicken

is a cdp in alaska.

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.

chicken

English

(wikipedia chicken) (Gallus gallus) (Gallus gallus)

Noun

  • (countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus , especially when young
  • (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
  • (countable, slang) A coward.
  • (countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Compare chickenhawk
  • (countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
  • * 1887 , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet , III:
    • "This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken ."
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Stella is no chicken .
  • A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (, the loser.)
    • Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.
  • The game of dare.

    • Synonyms

    * (bird) cock (male only), chook , hen (female only), rooster (male only) * (coward) * twink * (young inexperienced person) spring chicken * See also

    Derived terms

    * chicken and egg * chicken feed * chicken fillet * chickenhawk * chicken Kiev * chickenpox * chicken salt * chickenshit * like a chicken with its head cut off * like a chicken with the pip * play chicken * run around like a chicken with its head cut off * spring chicken

    Related terms

    * chick

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • cowardly

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To avoid as a result of fear.
  • To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.

    • Derived terms

    * chicken out * chicken legs

    See also

    * egg * poultry * cockerel * hen

    Anagrams

    * English adjectives ending in -en 1000 English basic words

    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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