Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird of Paradise of the genus Manucodia of Boddaert; a chalybean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any bird of the genus Manucodia, of Australia and New Guinea. They are related to the bird of paradise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the
birds of paradise in thegenus Manucodia.
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Examples
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Family Common Name Species Paradisaeidae Curl-crested manucode Manucodia comrii* Paradisaeidae Goldie's bird-of-paradise Paradisaea decora* An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.
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One of these birds, the curl-crested manucode, is found on all three major islands of the D'Entrecasteaux group and in the Trobriand Islands.
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To the manucode is ascribed practical interference with the laws of Nature.
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To the manucode is ascribed practical interference with the laws of
mollusque commented on the word manucode
Bird wird, reesetee!
October 20, 2009
bilby commented on the word manucode
"...from the French, an abbreviation of Manucodiata, and the Latinized form of the Malay Manukdewata, meaning, says Crawfurd (Malay and Engl. Dictionary, p. 97), the 'bird of the gods,' and a name applied for more than two hundred years apparently to birds-of-paradise in general."
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I haven't heard manuk in Malay, though I've heard it in Javanese and Sundanese with the meaning bird. And as manok in some dialects of Javanese.
October 20, 2009
reesetee commented on the word manucode
Thanks, m & b!
October 20, 2009