Definitions
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- noun Any of a group of
passerine birds , of the familyAegithinidae , found inIndia and other parts ofAsia
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Examples
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The iora is a feathered exquisite, about the size of a tomtit.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Grey hornbill Tockus birostris and Marshall's iora Aegithina nigrolutea are also present.
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The iora, the coppersmith, the barbet, the golden-backed woodpecker, and the white-breasted kingfisher continue to call merrily.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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The iora has a great variety of calls, of these a soft and rather plaintive long-drawn-out whistle is uttered most frequently in April and May.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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April is the month in which to look for two exquisite little nests -- those of the white-eye (_Zosterops palpebrosa_) and the iora
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Labra vasa ma - iora variis rebns recipiendis, ut mu8to expresso, inservientia.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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Staminum filamenta 4, 2 breviora fimplicia fertilia » % bifidd lon | iora ramulo altero amherifero, altero fterili; antliera geminatim connexs.
Antonii Laurentii de Jussieu ... Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita : juxta methodum in horto regio Parisiensi exaratam, anno M.DCC.LXXIV Barrois, Théophile, printer 1789
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He dwelt with Cormac in windy Ten: iora, when Semo's fon fell at Lego's ftream.
The poems of Ossian. Translated by James Macpherson, Esq; In two volumes. .. 1784
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Icgia et iora» aono domioi 2461, et anao illultriffioii regis £pw. quart* poft conqueftum priino.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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▼ iora fteritia, tubo cor. iniertg • Anth. ob - long. obtufae, a-locul.
Summa plantarum 1789
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