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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of birds of Paradise, of the family Paradiseidæ and subfamily Paradiseinæ, having the two middle tail-feathers long-exserted in the form of naked wiry shafts coiled at the end into a scorpioid or cincinnal racket which bears vanes, whence the name.
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