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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wallace's bird of paradise. See cut under
Semioptera .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A curious paradise bird (
Semioptera Wallacii ) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
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- noun A
bird of paradise (Semioptera wallacii) which has two long specialfeathers standingerect on each wing.
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The first, development of the ramjet, which pushes standard-wing planes up over Mach two.
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