mound buildern.

Brit.

/ˈmaʊnd ˌbɪldə/, U.S.

/ˈmaʊn(d) ˌbɪldər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mound n.², builder n.

Etymology: < mound n.² + builder n. With sense 2 compare earlier mound-building bird n. at mound-building adj. 1.

1. Archaeology. Frequently with capital initial. Originally: a member of a presumed prehistoric North American people, formerly inhabiting the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and other areas, regarded as a vanished pre-Indian race whose culture was characterized by the erection of mounds. Also, in later generic use: a bearer of the prehistoric and early historic American Indian cultures that produced these mounds. Cf. mound n.² 4a.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > [noun] > Indian of specific type of tribe

Rocky Mountain Indian1801

root digger1831

mound builder1833

digger1837

treaty Indian1876

non-treaty1877

1833 W. C. Bryant Prairies in Knickerbocker Mag. Dec. 411 The red man came—The roaming hunter tribes, warlike and wild, And the mound-builders vanished from the earth.

1847 E. G. Squier & E. H. Davis Anc. Monuments Mississippi Valley (1848) 188 Among the mound-builders the art of pottery attained to a considerable degree of perfection.

1893 Critic (N.Y.) 25 Mar. 177/1 It is now generally held that the Ohio Moundbuilders..fled southward.

1901 G. W. James Indian Basketry i. 13 In the North, baskets were, and still are, made, and we know of their manufacture by the Indians of Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Louisiana. Baskets have also been found among the remains of the Mound Builders.

1949 West Virginia Hist. Jan. 126 The life and times of the mound builders and Indians, assuming they were different people, are all very interesting.

1974 W. S. Sturtevant in J. Billard World of Amer. Indian 149 (caption) Their ritual rooted in the mound builder cultures of the distant past, Creek Indians dance at a tribal stomp ground in Oklahoma.

1991 A. Nikiforuk Fourth Horseman v. 67 In Cahokia, Illinois the celebrated Mound-builders, a group of prolific farmers near the Mississippi River, built an earthen ceremonial centre that covered six and a half acres.

2. A bird of the megapode family; esp. one that builds a large mound of debris to incubate the eggs by the heat of decomposition or of the sun.

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Megapodidae (mound-builder)

megapode1840

mound-building bird1846

mound bird1855

maleo1860

mound-maker1860

mound builder1869

megapod1890

incubator-bird1943

1869 A. S. Bickmore Trav. E. Indian Archipelago 287 The common name for these birds [sc. Megapodius Forsteni] is ‘mound-builders’, from their peculiar habit of scratching together great heaps of sand and sticks.

1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life iii. 46 The strange brush-turkeys and mound-builders, the only birds that never sit upon their eggs.

1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. iii. 96 Scrub turkeys, mound builders like the megapode, are plentiful all along the coast.

1946 G. Stimpson Thousand Things 283 The mound builders..are unique in that the young are hatched fully fledged and are able to fly.

1991 Sci. Amer. Dec. 68/2 Recent studies of one of the true mound builders living in tropical and subtropical forests, the Australian brush turkey.., have provided insight into the characteristics of the megapode mound, egg and offspring.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mound builder
释义	mound buildern. Brit. /ˈmaʊnd ˌbɪldə/, U.S. /ˈmaʊn(d) ˌbɪldər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mound n.², builder n. Etymology: < mound n.² + builder n. With sense 2 compare earlier mound-building bird n. at mound-building adj. 1. 1. Archaeology. Frequently with capital initial. Originally: a member of a presumed prehistoric North American people, formerly inhabiting the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and other areas, regarded as a vanished pre-Indian race whose culture was characterized by the erection of mounds. Also, in later generic use: a bearer of the prehistoric and early historic American Indian cultures that produced these mounds. Cf. mound n.² 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > [noun] > Indian of specific type of tribe Rocky Mountain Indian1801 root digger1831 mound builder1833 digger1837 treaty Indian1876 non-treaty1877 1833 W. C. Bryant Prairies in Knickerbocker Mag. Dec. 411 The red man came—The roaming hunter tribes, warlike and wild, And the mound-builders vanished from the earth. 1847 E. G. Squier & E. H. Davis Anc. Monuments Mississippi Valley (1848) 188 Among the mound-builders the art of pottery attained to a considerable degree of perfection. 1893 Critic (N.Y.) 25 Mar. 177/1 It is now generally held that the Ohio Moundbuilders..fled southward. 1901 G. W. James Indian Basketry i. 13 In the North, baskets were, and still are, made, and we know of their manufacture by the Indians of Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Louisiana. Baskets have also been found among the remains of the Mound Builders. 1949 West Virginia Hist. Jan. 126 The life and times of the mound builders and Indians, assuming they were different people, are all very interesting. 1974 W. S. Sturtevant in J. Billard World of Amer. Indian 149 (caption) Their ritual rooted in the mound builder cultures of the distant past, Creek Indians dance at a tribal stomp ground in Oklahoma. 1991 A. Nikiforuk Fourth Horseman v. 67 In Cahokia, Illinois the celebrated Mound-builders, a group of prolific farmers near the Mississippi River, built an earthen ceremonial centre that covered six and a half acres. 2. A bird of the megapode family; esp. one that builds a large mound of debris to incubate the eggs by the heat of decomposition or of the sun. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Megapodidae (mound-builder) megapode1840 mound-building bird1846 mound bird1855 maleo1860 mound-maker1860 mound builder1869 megapod1890 incubator-bird1943 1869 A. S. Bickmore Trav. E. Indian Archipelago 287 The common name for these birds [sc. Megapodius Forsteni] is ‘mound-builders’, from their peculiar habit of scratching together great heaps of sand and sticks. 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life iii. 46 The strange brush-turkeys and mound-builders, the only birds that never sit upon their eggs. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. iii. 96 Scrub turkeys, mound builders like the megapode, are plentiful all along the coast. 1946 G. Stimpson Thousand Things 283 The mound builders..are unique in that the young are hatched fully fledged and are able to fly. 1991 Sci. Amer. Dec. 68/2 Recent studies of one of the true mound builders living in tropical and subtropical forests, the Australian brush turkey.., have provided insight into the characteristics of the megapode mound, egg and offspring. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1833
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