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ˈmound-ˌbuilder
1. One of a prehistoric race of Indians, formerly inhabiting the Mississippi valley and other parts of North America, by whom were erected earthworks of immense extent as well as numerous smaller tumuli or mounds.
1841Bryant Poems, Prairies 11 And the mound-builders vanish'd from the earth. 1847Squier & Davis Monum. Mississ. Valley (1848) 188 Among the mound-builders the art of pottery attained to a considerable degree of perfection. 1893Critic 25 Mar. 177/1 It is now generally held that the Ohio Moundbuilders..fled southward.
2. Any one of the megapode birds which deposit their eggs in a ‘mound’ (see mound n.3 4 b).
1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life iii. 46 The strange brush-turkeys and mound-builders, the only birds that never sit upon their eggs. 1895C. Dixon in Fortn. Rev. Apr. 643 The Megapodidæ or mound-builders.
So ˈmound-ˌbuilding n. and a.
1853Lapham Antiq. Wisconsin (1855) 89 These later tribes continued the practice of mound-building so far as to erect a circular or conical tumulus over their dead. 1855W. S. Dallas in Syst. Nat. Hist. II. 219 The most remarkable of the mound-building birds is the Australian Brush-Turkey. 1902Hulbert Hist. Highways Amer. I. (title) Paths of the Mound-Building Indians [etc.]. |