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- noun Alternative spelling of
bird of paradise .
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Examples
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In the centre of the mantel was a stuffed bird-of-paradise, while about the room were scattered gorgeous shells from the southern seas, delicate sprays of coral sprouting from barnacled pi-pi shells and cased in glass, assegais from South Africa, stone axes from New Guinea, huge
SAMUEL 2010
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Koryta builds tension deftly and discreetly, with the coastal country itself contributing to the mounting claustrophobia, the "strange bird-of-paradise plants" which "pressed close, their wide green fronds stretching toward the sky in search of sunlight", the endless mangroves, the gathering storm.
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Scissor-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus fomerly, Milvulus forficatus; protonym, Muscivora forficata, also known as the Texas bird-of-paradise and the swallow-tailed flycatcher, photographed at Manhattan, Kansas.
Mystery bird: scissor-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus forficatus 2011
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He was going to surprise her with dinner, dancing, and a beautiful bouquet of pink roses and bird-of-paradise—a little of the traditional with something exotic—delivered to the house.
Red Hats Damon Wayans 2010
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Standing outside was a deliveryman with a beautiful bouquet of pink roses and bird-of-paradise, a rich variation of a rainbow.
Red Hats Damon Wayans 2010
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Toby Stephens has a fruity, bird-of-paradise quality which makes him more obvious casting as an actor than a dramatist: he often looks as if he's on the brink of tossing his locks.
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Standing outside was a deliveryman with a beautiful bouquet of pink roses and bird-of-paradise, a rich variation of a rainbow.
Red Hats Damon Wayans 2010
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Standing outside was a deliveryman with a beautiful bouquet of pink roses and bird-of-paradise, a rich variation of a rainbow.
Red Hats Damon Wayans 2010
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He was going to surprise her with dinner, dancing, and a beautiful bouquet of pink roses and bird-of-paradise—a little of the traditional with something exotic—delivered to the house.
Red Hats Damon Wayans 2010
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He was going to surprise her with dinner, dancing, and a beautiful bouquet of pink roses and bird-of-paradise—a little of the traditional with something exotic—delivered to the house.
Red Hats Damon Wayans 2010
treeseed commented on the word bird-of-paradise
an ornamental plant (Strelitzia reginae of the family Strelitziaceae) native to southern Africa that has scapes terminating in a horizontal bract from which emerges an upright flower having three orange or yellow sepals and three irregular blue petals
January 23, 2008
sionnach commented on the word bird-of-paradise
Word of advice. Never, on a whim, decide to surprise your friends by shipping them a stunning gift of bird-of-paradise plants based on a picture you see in a catalog. when 'overnight shipping on dry ice' actually turns out to be ground shipping that takes 17 days, your friends will wonder why you went to so much trouble to send them a card that is accompanied by a puddle of smelly decaying vegetable matter.
January 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word bird-of-paradise
Eeeew! Advice taken.
January 23, 2008