Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A book-name for the small South American birds of the genus Nonnula.

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Examples

  • Restricted range species however, are thought to include olive-chested flycatcher (Myiophobus cryptoxanthus), brown nunlet (Nonnula brunnea), and Ochre-striped antpitta (Grallaria dignissima) to name a few.

    Napo moist forests 2008

  • One, a nunlet, in shape resembles a short-tailed bluebird.

    V. Up the River of Tapirs 1914

  • One, a nunlet, in shape resembles a short-tailed bluebird.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

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  • a bird

    or

    Coteries of nuns have been known to frequent these places

    or

    nun of the above

    July 19, 2009