| 单词 | mound builder |
| 释义 | mound builder (once / 55490 pages) n WORD FAMILY mound builder: mound builders USAGE EXAMPLES“This civilization developed at the height of the mound builders.” Washington Times(Jul 04, 2014) On its banks are found those mysterious legacies of the Mound Builders—whether dwellings or tombs, remains for the antiquarian to determine. Glazier, Willard W., Ocean to Ocean on Horseback—Being t...(2011) The works they built have lived after them, and from these silent memorials the people have been called Mound Builders. Purcell, Martha Grassham, Stories of Old Kentucky(2011) n large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs Syn|Hypo|Hyper megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, scrub fowl Leipoa ocellata, leipoa, lowan, mallee fowl Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds Alectura lathami, brush turkeyblack megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea Macrocephalon maleo, maleoCelebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches mallee henadult female mallee fowl gallinacean, gallinaceous bird heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds Mound Builder (once / 513884 pages) n WORD FAMILY Mound Builder USAGE EXAMPLESN. C. 201 Mound Builder’s Pipe of pottery, long stem, bowl on centre of stem. Norman, Wm. B., American Antiquities—Auction Catalo...(2011) Neither wilt thou ever know Anything of me, old Mound Builder! Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No...(2010) Nor is the convexity of the squamo-parietal suture such as characterizes the low-typed cranium of the chimpanzee or the Mound Builder. Rosse, Irving C. (Irving Collins), The First Landing on Wrangel Island...(2010) n prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds Hyper primitive, primitive person a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization |
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