MOUND BUILDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mound Builder mean? 

• MOUND BUILDER (noun)
  The noun MOUND BUILDER has 2 senses:

1. prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds

2. large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs

  Familiarity information: MOUND BUILDER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUND BUILDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Mound Builder" is a kind of...):

primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

megapode; mound-bird; mound bird; mound builder; scrub fowl

Hypernyms ("mound builder" is a kind of...):

gallinacean; gallinaceous bird (heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mound builder"):

leipoa; Leipoa ocellata; lowan; mallee fowl (Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds)

Alectura lathami; brush turkey (black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea)

Macrocephalon maleo; maleo (Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches)

Holonyms ("mound builder" is a member of...):

family Megapodiidae; Megapodiidae (megapodes)