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paradise bird en · NOUN
Meanings
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(obsolete) Synonym of bird of paradise.
He was delayed there more than a month before he could get back to the north side of Mysol, which he found a much better locality, but it was not yet the season for the Paradise Birds; and before he had obtained more than a few of the common sort, the last prau was ready to leave for Ternate, and he was obliged to take the opportunity, as he expected I would be waiting there for him.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 385:
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Synonyms
bird of paradise