mound builder

mound builder

n.

See megapode.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Mound Builder - prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds primitive, primitive person - a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
	2.	mound builder - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, scrub fowl gallinacean, gallinaceous bird - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds family Megapodiidae, Megapodiidae - megapodes leipoa, Leipoa ocellata, lowan, mallee fowl - Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds Alectura lathami, brush turkey - black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea Macrocephalon maleo, maleo - Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches