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/mˈænɐkˌɪn/
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NOUN
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior
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a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
she was too fat to be a mannequin
How To Use manakin In A Sentence
- Entire avian families, including cotingas, manakins, toucans, and ground antbirds, are essentially confined to the Neotropics, as are such unique species as screamers, trumpeters, sunbittern, hoatzin, and boat-billed heron.
- Comparative approaches for examining processes of sexual selection have been applied to a variety of systems including spiders, mites, swordtail fish, guppies, frogs, manakins, and house finches.
- 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. Through the Brazilian Wilderness
- Like many other manakins, adult males develop a brilliant and conspicuous plumage, establish an arena, and display to females.
- Carved from a dense forest of hardwoods and pines in the southwest Richmond, Va., suburb of Manakin-Sabot, most of Kinloch's holes are unusually broad.
- 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. VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land
- The noise-making skill of manakins first came to the attention of naturalists in the 1800's.
- But lance-tailed manakin males cooperate in spectacular courtship displays with unrelated partners. Science Press Releases
- The prettiest bird was a tiny manakin, coal-black, with a red-and-orange head. VI. Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil
- Each time the manakin produced a loud, clear tone that sounded as if it came from a violin.
