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/bərd əv pˈɛrədˌaɪs/ Listen

Bird of paradise

noun

A tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana. Synonyms: Caesalpinia gilliesii, poinciana, Poinciana gilliesii.

Ornamental plant of tropical South Africa and South America having stalks of orange and purplish-blue flowers resembling a bird. Synonym: Strelitzia reginae.

Any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area.

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... going away: and several of the gallants of White Hall, of which there were many staying to see the Chancellor return, did talk to her in her birdcage; among others, Blancford, telling her she was the bird of paradise. ...

— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... Flagship, the sun set exactly behind the purple island of Imbros, and as it disappeared sent out long flame-coloured streamers into the sky. The effect was that of a bird of Paradise bringing ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton

... "No;—but a bird of paradise to come to me so sweetly, and at an hour when all the other birds refuse to show the feather of a ...

— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope

... dear," she confessed, "although I cannot walk. Without admiration there is"—she snapped her fingers—"nothing. And who would notice a linnet when a bird of paradise was about, however sweet her voice? Tell me that, ...

— Bat Wing • Sax Rohmer

... we sat, the leaves of a tree over our heads were lightly stirred, and a bird, adorned with long plumes more beautiful than those of a bird of paradise, alighted on a branch, and began to ruffle its iridescent feathers in a peculiar way. With every movement waves of color seemed to flow over it, merging and dissolving in the most marvelous manner. As soon ...

— A Columbus of Space • Garrett P. Serviss

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