What's the difference between megapode and turkey?

Megapode


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl (b) under Jungle, and Leipoa.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both this and the scrubfowl are megapodes (which literally means ‘big feet’), whose hard-working males build a huge mound out of leaves and earth where the female lays her eggs, which are incubated by the heat provided by the rotting vegetation.
  • (2) Artificial incubation is also practised by birds belonging to the family of the Megapodes: the Brush Turkey and the Mallee Fowl build a mound and maintain the required temperature of the eggs laid in it.

Turkey


Definition:

  • (n.) An empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.
  • (n.) Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
  • (2) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
  • (3) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
  • (4) The protein quality and iron bioavailability of mechanically deboned turkey meat (MDT) and hand-deboned turkey meat (HDT) were determined in rats.
  • (5) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
  • (6) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
  • (7) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
  • (8) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
  • (9) Tracheal mucus transport rate (TMTR) and quantitative clearance of aerosolized Escherichia coli from the trachea, lung, and air sac were measured in healthy unanesthetized turkeys and in turkeys exposed by aerosol to a La Sota vaccine strain of Newcastle disease virus (NDV).
  • (10) The lymphoproliferative disease virus (LPDV) of turkeys is the retroviral agent of etiology of a rapidly developing, naturally occurring, lymphoproliferative process.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Looking on as his Bolton side take on Besiktas during their Uefa Cup group game in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • (12) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
  • (13) Reductions of similar magnitude were obtained following intracranial administration of turkey, ovine or human GH.
  • (14) A detailed comparison of the interaction of beta-adrenergic receptors with adenylate cyclase stimulation and modification of this interaction by guanine nucleotides has been made in two model systems, the frog and turkey erythrocyte.
  • (15) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
  • (16) But Turkey prefers to deal with the present rather than admit to past crimes.
  • (17) Circumstantial evidence indicated that in the field; the incubation period of P multocida in a turkey flock may be between 2 to 7 weeks.
  • (18) Before the AKP came to power, nobody had heard of Turkey and our politicians.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest 11-year-old Karim, who lives and works in a camp for displaced people close to the border with Turkey.
  • (20) After the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, threatened to veto a deal with Turkey, a reference to media freedom was added to the final summit statement.

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