Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mound_builder

2 senses of mound builder

Sense 1
Mound Builder -- (prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds)
       => primitive, primitive person -- (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)

Sense 2
megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, mound builder, scrub fowl -- (large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs)
       => gallinaceous bird, gallinacean -- (heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds)