Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mound-bird .
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The only birds at all common were the great red parrot (Eclectus grandis), found in most of the Moluccas, a crow, and a Megapodius, or mound-maker.
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The megapodius or mound-maker, an ash-coloured bird about the size of a small fowl, grasps sand or soil in the hollow of a powerful claw, and throws it backwards into mounds six feet high, wherein the eggs are deposited, to be hatched by this natural incubator, through the heat of the vegetable matter contained in the rubbish heap.
Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings
hernesheir commented on the word mound-maker
It's a bird.
November 22, 2012