Cahokia Mounds

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noun

a group of very large prehistoric Indian earthworks in southwestern Illinois, consisting of mounds with flat tops that supported temples and other structures of mud and thatch.

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Words nearby Cahokia Mounds

Cahaba, Cahan, cahier, cahill, Cahokia, Cahokia Mounds, cahoot, cahoots, cahow, Cahuilla, CAI

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How to use Cahokia Mounds in a sentence

Why did earlier people go to all the trouble to build mounds?
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There are just mounds and mounds of digital trees of information falling in the forest.
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The dead and dying lay piled in rising mounds across the city.
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Think all-tequila margaritas, carne asada tacos spritzed with lemon, key lime pies that are mounds of crust and nothing more.
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Drop the biscuit batter by the heaping tablespoonful onto a prepared baking sheets allowing about 1- inch between mounds.
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Oliver crept away to the old churchyard, and sitting down on one of the green mounds, wept for her in silence.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3)|Charles Dickens
These mounds are usually about eighteen feet apart, and consist of about as much earth as would fill a very large wheelbarrow.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge|Various
They are not particularly high, and stand upon three artificially raised mounds, a mile distant from each other.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
There are no steps leading to the tops of these mounds, the only means of access being by ladders, which can be drawn up at night.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
You have a set of mounds before you, covering perhaps twenty acres or more, and rising to a height of about eighty feet.
The Cradle of Mankind|W.A. Wigram

British Dictionary definitions for Cahokia Mounds

Cahokia Mounds

/ (kəˈhəʊkɪə) /

pl n

the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis

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