Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several chiefly tropical American birds of the genus Crotophaga, related to the cuckoo and having black plumage and a long tail.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bird of the genus Crotophaga, sub-family Crotophaginæ, and family Cuculidæ, inhabiting the warmer parts of America.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, having a compressed, bladelike bill and remarkable for communistic nesting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A bird of the genus Crotophaga in the cuckoo family.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun black tropical American cuckoo

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[American Spanish aní or Portuguese ani, both from Tupí ani.]

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Portuguese or Spanish ani, both from Old Tupi.

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  • Sinon aussi vous pouvez me faire un don a moi-meme par paypal ou cheque afin d'acquerir ma sublime BJD "Luts Delf Kid Boy" ani "" ...

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  • It does still require the specially crafted ".ani" file to get onto the local system, but these days that still isn't that hard I don't think.

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  • Chersi ` d 'ani'ptoisi Di leth'bein ai'thopa oinon

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  • * Chersi ` d 'ani'ptoisi Di leth'bein ai'thopa oinon: [434] 1

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823

  • He mea pā'ani 'o ia no Lahainaluna, a ma ke kau nei i hala, he 15.3 āna' ai o ka ho'okūkū, a he 9.1 lālau.

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  • He mea pā'ani 'o ia no Lahainaluna, a ma ke kau nei i hala, he 15.3 āna' ai o ka ho'okūkū, a he 9.1 lālau.

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  • There are all kinds of little anomalies like this in the Games; I had to play Football using androids termed ani - mals, with robots for referees. "

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

  • Yes | No | Report from mattreney wrote 36 weeks 4 days ago funny how no one is realy suprised at Obamas failure to act. now if it was the soldiers killing the ani-american of course we would hear about how outraged Obama is and it wouldnt just be a small write-up in the local paper

    Thank You Prisident Obama 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from mattreney wrote 36 weeks 4 days ago funny how no one is realy suprised at Obamas failure to act. now if it was the soldiers killing the ani-american of course we would hear about how outraged Obama is and it wouldnt just be a small write-up in the local paper

    Thank You Prisident Obama 2009

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