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mound builder
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Noun mound builder has 2 senses
- mound builder(n = noun.person) Array - prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds; Array is a kind of primitive, primitive person
- mound builder(n = noun.animal) megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, scrub fowl - large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs; Array is a kind of gallinacean, gallinaceous bird
is a member of family megapodiidae, megapodiidae
has particulars: leipoa, leipoa ocellata, lowan, mallee fowl, alectura lathami, brush turkey, macrocephalon maleo, maleo
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