earthen mound

English

Etymology

From earthen +‎ mound.

Noun

earthen mound (plural earthen mounds)

  1. A type of mound; a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
    Hypernym: mound
    • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4:
      But transects have also been utilised in a large variety of arenas, including surveying the contents of Amerindian earthen mounds[.]
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