Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bird of Paradise of the genus Manucodia of Boddaert; a chalybean. The term has also been used for some of the true birds of Paradise of the genus Paradisea of Linnæus or Manucodiata of Brisson.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of the birds of paradise in the genus Manucodia.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Any bird of the genus Manucodia, of Australia and New Guinea. They are related to the bird of paradise.
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“To the manucode is ascribed practical interference with the laws of Nature.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘manucode’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
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Pterodactyl's Game of Postal Abbrevia...
Here's a fun little word game that might appeal to my fellow Wordies. The object of this game is to create the longest possible word, using only the official two-letter abbreviations of U.S. states...
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
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Australian
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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Favourite Etymologies
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for manucode.
reesetee Thanks, m & b! Oct 20, 2009
bilby "...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. Oct 20, 2009
mollusque Bird wird, reesetee! Oct 20, 2009