English noun: Mound Builder |
1. | Mound Builder (person) prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds |
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| Broader (hypernym) | primitive, primitive person |
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2. | mound builder (animal) large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs |
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| Synonyms | megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, scrub fowl |
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| Broader (hypernym) | gallinacean, gallinaceous bird |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Alectura lathami, brush turkey, leipoa, Leipoa ocellata, lowan, Macrocephalon maleo, maleo, mallee fowl |
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| Member meronym | family Megapodiidae, Megapodiidae |
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