3 Results for kitchen midden
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หรือค้นหา: -kitchen midden-, *kitchen midden*Too few results, automatically try *kitchen midden*
Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)
| Kitchen middens | pos>n. pl. [ Dan. kjök-kenmöddings kitchen leavings; cf. Scot. midden a dunghill. ] Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ] |
EDICT JP-EN Dictionary
| 貝塚 | [かいづか;かいずか(ik), kaiduka ; kaizuka (ik)] (n) shell heap; shell mound; kitchen midden #7,580 [Add to Longdo] |
WordNet (3.0)
| eitchen midden | (n) (archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement, Syn. midden, kitchen midden |
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