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Bird of paradise

The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.

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Herb 76% connected

A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

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Oscine 76% connected

Relating to the Oscines.

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Riflebird 76% connected

Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds.

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Poinciana 92% connected

A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long cri…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Coma noun · 86% connection

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Breadfruit noun · 78% connection

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Bulbul noun · 78% connection

The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliida…

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Compare verb · 78% connection

To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of on…

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Etheostomoid noun · 78% connection

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Filander noun · 78% connection

A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.

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Goura noun · 78% connection

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