Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several chiefly tropical American birds of the genus Crotophaga, related to the cuckoo and having black plumage and a long tail.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird of the genus Crotophaga, sub-family Crotophaginæ, and family Cuculidæ, inhabiting the warmer parts of America.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (
Crotophaga ani ), allied to the cuckoos, having a compressed, bladelike bill and remarkable for communistic nesting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bird of the genusCrotophaga in thecuckoo family.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun black tropical American cuckoo
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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March 22, 2006 at 1: 05 pm hi shane my mums a carer n wrked with a girl that used 2 live near u i think ur gr8 u probaly aint takin ani notice of this bt itz wrth a try tlkin 2 u plzz email me
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Sinon aussi vous pouvez me faire un don a moi-meme par paypal ou cheque afin d'acquerir ma sublime BJD "Luts Delf Kid Boy" ani "" ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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It does still require the specially crafted ".ani" file to get onto the local system, but these days that still isn't that hard I don't think.
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Chersi ` d 'ani'ptoisi Di leth'bein ai'thopa oinon
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823
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* Chersi ` d 'ani'ptoisi Di leth'bein ai'thopa oinon: [434] 1
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823
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He mea pā'ani 'o ia no Lahainaluna, a ma ke kau nei i hala, he 15.3 āna' ai o ka ho'okūkū, a he 9.1 lālau.
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He mea pā'ani 'o ia no Lahainaluna, a ma ke kau nei i hala, he 15.3 āna' ai o ka ho'okūkū, a he 9.1 lālau.
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There are all kinds of little anomalies like this in the Games; I had to play Football using androids termed ani - mals, with robots for referees. "
Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981
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Yes | No | Report from mattreney wrote 36 weeks 4 days ago funny how no one is realy suprised at Obamas failure to act. now if it was the soldiers killing the ani-american of course we would hear about how outraged Obama is and it wouldnt just be a small write-up in the local paper
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Yes | No | Report from mattreney wrote 36 weeks 4 days ago funny how no one is realy suprised at Obamas failure to act. now if it was the soldiers killing the ani-american of course we would hear about how outraged Obama is and it wouldnt just be a small write-up in the local paper
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