"mound builder" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

Prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds (synset 110354174)
is a type of: primitive, primitive person - a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
Large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia;
Build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs (synset 101803729)
is a type of: gallinacean, gallinaceous bird - heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds
subtypes:
- 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
belongs to: family megapodiidae, megapodiidae - megapodes

same as: megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, scrub fowl