Definitions

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

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) The kingfishers.

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  • Dile6tx Thetidi, alcyones; non ore folutos Inmundi memincre fues jadare maniplos.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

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