1) Colorful, ornate flower 2) Constellation, Apus 3) Constellation 4) Eve, to Alfie 5) What might fly up your nose
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The birds-of-paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes. The majority of species are found in New Guinea and its satellites, with a few in the Maluku Islands and eastern Australia. The family has forty-one species in 14 genera. The members of this family are perhaps best known for the plumage of the males of the se...
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• The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.
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any of about 40 species of small to medium-sized forest birds (order Passeriformes). They are rivalled only by a few pheasants and hummingbirds in ... [3 related articles]
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(Strelitzia) This group consists of four, tender perennials originally from South Africa. The most commonly grown is S. reginae, commonly known as the Bird-of-Paradise, Crane Flower or Crane Lily. This plant forms clumps of long-stalked leaves up to 3 feet long. The evergreen, bluish- or gray-green leaves have an oblong shape and leathery texture. ...
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<ornithology> The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting new Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colours, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers. ... The Great emerald (Paradisea apoda) and the Lesser emerald (P. Minor) furnish many of the plumes used as orna...
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Bird' of par'a·dise (Zoology) The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus
Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers. » The
Great emerald (
Paradisea apoda ) and the ...
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Bird of Paradise is the name for members of a family of birds of splendid plumage allied to the crows, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The family includes eleven or twelve genera and a number of species, some of them remarkably beautiful. The largest species is over 60 centimetres in length. The king bird of paradise (Paradisea regi...
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n] - a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers 2. [n] - ornamental plant of tropical South Africa and South America having stalks of orange and purplish-blue flowers resembling a bird 3. [n] - any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area
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noun ornamental plant of tropical South Africa and South America having stalks of orange and purplish-blue flowers resembling a bird
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noun any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area
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One of 40 species of crowlike birds in the family Paradiseidae, native to New Guinea and neighbouring islands. Females are generally drably coloured, but the males have bright and elaborate plumage used in courtship display. Hunted almost to extinction for their plumage, they are now subject to conse...
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any of several passerine birds of the family Paradisaeidae, of New Guinea and adjacent islands, the males of which have ornate, colorful plumage.
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