单词 | mound builders |
释义 | Mound Builders in American Englishplural noun the various Native American tribes who, in prehistoric and early historic times, erected the burial mounds and other earthworks of the Mississippi drainage basin and southeastern U.S. Word origin [1830–40, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1830–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: paraffin, rococo, showcase, stroboscope, walkover |
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