Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the rollers (Coraciidæ) of the genus Eurystomus, as E. pacificus or australis, of the Australian and Papuan regions: so called from the large round white spot on the wing. See cut under
Eu-rystomus .
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Examples
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The Anula tribe of Northern Australia associate the dollar-bird with rain, and call it the rain-bird.
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They explain this procedure by saying that long ago the dollar-bird had as a mate at this spot a snake, who lived in the pool and used to make rain by spitting up into the sky till a rainbow and clouds appeared and rain fell.
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The Anula tribe of Northern Australia associate the dollar-bird with rain, and call it the rain-bird.
Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather. § 2. The Magical Control of Rain 1922
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They explain this procedure by saying that long ago the dollar-bird had as a mate at this spot a snake, who lived in the pool and used to make rain by spitting up into the sky till a rainbow and clouds appeared and rain fell.
Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather. § 2. The Magical Control of Rain 1922
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They explain this procedure by saying that long ago the dollar-bird had as a mate at this spot a snake, who lived in the pool and used to make rain by spitting up into the sky till a rainbow and clouds appeared and rain fell.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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The Anula tribe of Northern Australia associate the dollar-bird with rain, and call it the rain-bird.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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They explain this procedure by saying that long ago the dollar-bird had as a mate at this spot a snake, who lived in the pool and used to make rain by spitting up into the sky till a rainbow and clouds appeared and rain fell.
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The Anula tribe of Northern Australia associate the dollar-bird with rain, and call it the rain-bird.
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Dollar was then an everyday word; it gave a name to the dollar-bird with its whitish patch in the center of each wing suggesting the shape of a silver dollar.
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