MOUND BUILDER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs

Synonyms:

megapode; mound-bird; mound bird; mound builder; scrub fowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mound builder" is a kind of...):

gallinacean; gallinaceous bird (heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mound builder"):

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)

Holonyms ("mound builder" is a member of...):

family Megapodiidae; Megapodiidae (megapodes)

Meaning:

Prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Mound Builder" is a kind of...):

primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)