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单词 mound-maker
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mound-maker
mound-maker n. Obsolete (a) = mound builder n. 1; (b) = mound builder n. 2.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Megapodidae (mound-builder)
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1860 C. Campbell Hist. Virginia 85 We may..conclude that either they..have greatly degenerated, or that the mound-makers were a distinct and superior race.
1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. I. x. 243 The strange mound-maker (Megapodius gouldii).
1876 A. R. Wallace Geogr. Distribution Animals xiii. 399 The mound-makers (Megapodiidae) of the Australian region are more nearly allied to the South American curassows.
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