mound

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He had found it growing upon a prairie mound_--which he had climbed for the purpose of exploring his botany--adding at the same time that he had observed the species only upon the top of this mound, and nowhere else in the surrounding country This mound was our mesa.

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  1. noun A pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris heaped for protection or concealment.
  2. noun A natural elevation, such as a small hill.
  3. noun A raised mass, as of hay; a heap. See Synonyms at heap.
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pile ·  ridge ·  lump ·  pyramid ·  patch ·  slab ·  clump ·  hill ·  pillar ·  dome ·  expanse ·  bit

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  1. from Middle English mound, a protection, a helmet, might, from Anglo-Saxon mund, the hand, a hand (as a measure), hence (like the equivalent L. manus, hand) power, protection, guardianship, especially in comp., in legal use; not found in sense of ‘hill,’ but cf. mund-beorh, a protecting hill; = OFries. mund, mond = Old High German munt = Icelandic mund, protection; perhaps ult. related to L. mon (t-)s, a hill, mountain, later English mount, with which mound has been somewhat confused: see mount.
  2. from mound, n.
  3. from French monde = Spanish Portuguese mundo = Italian mondo, from Latin mundus, the world, the universe, cosmos, literally ornament, decoration, dress; hence ult. English mundify, etc., mundane, etc. Cf. mappemounde.
 

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