| 单词 | mound-making |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmound-making mound-making n. and adj. ΚΠ 1858 A. M. Redfield Zoöl. Sci. 375 The Mound-making Megapode, Megapodius tumulus..confines itself to thickets near the sea-shore, and is called the Jungle-fowl. 1867 E. Bacon Among Cotton Thieves 276 All the division commanders were striving to outdo one another working their men in all sorts of digging, mining, and mound making, described in the text-books on fortification as proper for besiegers. 1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. I. i. 21 The mound-making brush-turkeys. 1992 Evening Standard (Nexis) 19 May 44 Marsupial rats, wolves and kangaroos are not found on Lombok, but its cockatoos and mound-making birds are unmistakably Australian. < as lemmas |
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