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Definition of Mound builder

1. Noun. Prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds.

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

Definition of Mound builder

1. Noun. Any of several Native American people who constructed large mounds for ceremonial or burial purposes ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mound Builder

moulted moulten moulter moulters moulting moultings moults moun mounanaite mounch

mounched mounching mound-bird mound bird mound builder (current term) mound over moundbird moundbirds moundbuilder moundbuilders

mounded mounded over mounding moundlike mounds mounier-kuhn syndrome mounseer mounseers

Literary usage of Mound builder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1872)
"... of what I regard as the distinctive characters of the Mound-builder's skull, selecting for the purpose the one represented by Fig. ..."

2. The North Americans of antiquity by Short, John Thomas, d.1883, John Thomas Short (1879)
"... Mounds of Wisconsin—Elephant Mound— Discoveries at Davenport, Iowa—Davenport Tablet—Heart of the Mound- builder Country—Cahokia—Resemblances to ..."

3. The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: With Notices of by Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1886)
"... Mound-builder—Description of the breeding-grounds—Theory as to the enormous size of the egg—Limbe Strait and Island—Dangerous ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1872)
"... of what I regard as the distinctive characters of the Mound-builder's skull, selecting for the purpose the one represented by Fig. ..."

5. The North Americans of antiquity by Short, John Thomas, d.1883, John Thomas Short (1879)
"... Mounds of Wisconsin—Elephant Mound— Discoveries at Davenport, Iowa—Davenport Tablet—Heart of the Mound- builder Country—Cahokia—Resemblances to ..."

6. The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: With Notices of by Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1886)
"... Mound-builder—Description of the breeding-grounds—Theory as to the enormous size of the egg—Limbe Strait and Island—Dangerous ..."

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