Manakin

Word MANAKIN
Character 7
Hyphenation man a kin
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Definitions and meanings of "Manakin"

What do we mean by manakin?

Any of various small colorful birds of the family Pipridae, found in forests of Central and South America. noun

See manikin.

Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridæ. They are mostly natives of Central and South America. Some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families. noun

A dwarf. See manikin. noun

Any of several small, passerine, South American birds of the family Pipridae noun

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Any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior noun

Any of several small South American passerine birds of the family Pipridae.

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The word "manakin" in example sentences

But lance-tailed manakin males cooperate in spectacular courtship displays with unrelated partners. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Recently, he wrote about a little bird called a manakin. ❋ Asakiyume (2007)

The bird example is the Araripe's manakin (Antilophia bokermanni), a wonderful bird recently discovered on the forest slopes of Chapada do Araripe. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Gradually his ear became accustomed to the roar, and, above its mighty undertone, he could hear the whisper of the wind among the shrubs, and the hum of myriad insects; while the rock manakin, with its saffron plumage, flitted before him from stone to stone, calling cheerily, and seeming to lead him on. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When the dominant male at a manakin lek dies, one of the subordinate males who assisted him inherits his position; ditto for the subordinate foundresses at a wasp nest. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The prettiest bird was a tiny manakin, coal-black, with a red-and-orange head. ❋ Unknown (1914)

There was also a tiny soft-tailed woodpecker, no larger than a kinglet; a queer humming-bird with a slightly flexible bill; and many species of ant-thrush, tanager, manakin, and tody. ❋ Unknown (1914)

They ranged from party-colored macaws, green parrots, and big gregarious cuckoos down to a brilliant green-and-chestnut kingfisher, five and a quarter inches long, and a tiny orange-and-green manakin, smaller than any bird I have ever seen except a hummer. ❋ Unknown (1914)

The great and good William McKinley, the patient, praying President, was most bitterly assailed, his motives most bitterly impunged and he was called "the puppet president," "the tool," "the manakin." ❋ Unknown (1902)

They ranged from party-colored macaws, green parrots, and big gregarious cuckoos down to a brilliant green-and-chestnut kingfisher, five and a quarter inches long, and a tiny orange-and - green manakin, smaller than any bird I have ever seen except a hummer. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)

When I encounter one of these people some fine day in a hotel, I act like the birds, who see a manakin in a field. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)

I stood with a tanager in one hand, a lovely manakin in the other, thinking. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

They are called after their colours, as the speckled manakin, the white-capped South ❋ W. Blanchard Jerrold (1855)

* To preserve in our collections the fine tint of the plumage of a male and full-grown rock-manakin, it must not be exposed to the light. ❋ Unknown (1851)

In these solitary haunts the rock-manakin with gilded plumage (Pipra rupicola), one of the most beautiful birds of the tropics, builds its nest. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Whereat, slapping the manakin on the cheek, the old woman said, "If Self did it, Self must mend it again." ❋ James Napier (1847)

The miller was so frightened that this time he let him go; but, in a few minutes, the manakin returned again with his cappie. ❋ James Napier (1847)

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