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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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... upper hoist-side corner; the upper triangle is red with a soaring yellow bird of paradise centered; the lower triangle is black with five white five-pointed stars of ...

— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... gold bird of paradise dipped down her hair over one shoulder, trailing its smoothness like fingers of lace. She defied with ...

— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst

... carry exceedingly heavy loads up these steep hills. Yesterday one woman had two large kits of taro, and a child of about two years on the top of all. Ruatoka shot eight blue pigeons and one bird of paradise to-day: the latter must be eaten with the best of all sauces—hunger. The natives pick up heads, legs, and entrails, turn them on the fire and ...

— Adventures in New Guinea • James Chalmers

... indulged in magnificent reveries of fame and glory and heroic action, of which career, indeed, his approaching departure was to be the commencement, the association of ideas led his recollection to those beings from whom he was about to depart. His fancy dropped like a bird of paradise in full wing, tumbling exhausted in the sky: he thought of his innocent and happy boyhood, of his father's thoughtful benevolence, his sweet mother's gentle assiduities, and Glastonbury's devotion; and he demanded aloud, in a voice of anguish, ...

— Henrietta Temple - A Love Story • Benjamin Disraeli

... while here and there an ox-eyed daisy glowed from out its somber company as a firefly shines through the dusk of twilight. In the midst of all this sat Nannie in her pretty suit trimmed in scarlet, looking like a bird of paradise amid a flock of sparrows and other soberly clad creatures. Indeed, she reminded one of a bird, with her head cocked on one side and her ...

— The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives • Elizabeth Strong Worthington

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