Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small colorful birds of the family Pipridae, found in forests of Central and South America.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
manikin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dwarf. See
manikin . - noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family
Pipridæ . They are mostly natives of Central and South America. Some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several small, passerine, South American
birds of the familyPipridae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
- noun a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- noun any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior
Etymologies
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Examples
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But lance-tailed manakin males cooperate in spectacular courtship displays with unrelated partners.
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The bird example is the Araripe's manakin (Antilophia bokermanni), a wonderful bird recently discovered on the forest slopes of Chapada do Araripe.
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Recently, he wrote about a little bird called a manakin.
moonwalking bird asakiyume 2007
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Gradually his ear became accustomed to the roar, and, above its mighty undertone, he could hear the whisper of the wind among the shrubs, and the hum of myriad insects; while the rock manakin, with its saffron plumage, flitted before him from stone to stone, calling cheerily, and seeming to lead him on.
Westward Ho! 2007
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When the dominant male at a manakin lek dies, one of the subordinate males who assisted him inherits his position; ditto for the subordinate foundresses at a wasp nest.
Behe Disproves Irreducible Complexity - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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The prettiest bird was a tiny manakin, coal-black, with a red-and-orange head.
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There was also a tiny soft-tailed woodpecker, no larger than a kinglet; a queer humming-bird with a slightly flexible bill; and many species of ant-thrush, tanager, manakin, and tody.
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They ranged from party-colored macaws, green parrots, and big gregarious cuckoos down to a brilliant green-and-chestnut kingfisher, five and a quarter inches long, and a tiny orange-and-green manakin, smaller than any bird I have ever seen except a hummer.
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The great and good William McKinley, the patient, praying President, was most bitterly assailed, his motives most bitterly impunged and he was called "the puppet president," "the tool," "the manakin."
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They ranged from party-colored macaws, green parrots, and big gregarious cuckoos down to a brilliant green-and-chestnut kingfisher, five and a quarter inches long, and a tiny orange-and - green manakin, smaller than any bird I have ever seen except a hummer.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
mollusque commented on the word manakin
A passerine bird of the family Pipridae of Central and South America. Compare mannikin.
September 28, 2008