资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mound \Mound\, n. [OE. mound, mund, protection, AS. mund
   protection, hand; akin to OHG. munt, Icel. mund hand, and
   prob. to L. manus. See {Manual}.]
   An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an
   embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also,
   a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a
   regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.

         To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. --Dryden.

   {Mound bird}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Mound maker} (below).

   {Mound builders} (Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North
      American aborigines who built, in former times, extensive
      mounds of earth, esp. in the valleys of the Mississippi
      and Ohio Rivers. Formerly they were supposed to have
      preceded the Indians, but later investigations go to show
      that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that
      occupied the country when discovered by Europeans.

   {Mound maker} (Zo["o]l.), any one of the megapodes.

   {Shell mound}, a mound of refuse shells, collected by
      aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See
      {Midden}, and {Kitchen middens}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

mound bird
     n : large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds
         of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs [syn: {megapode},
          {mound-bird}, {mound builder}, {scrub fowl}]