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单词 manucodiata
释义

manucodiatan.

Inflections: Plural unchanged.
Forms: 1500s manucoodiata (transmission error), 1500s–1700s manucodiata, 1600s manucadite.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin manuccodiata.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin manuccodiata (earliest in Maximilianus Transylvanus Epist. (1523) sig. Divv; later also as manucodiata ) < Javanese manuk déwâtâ < manuk bird + déwâtâ male deities collectively < déwa male deity < Sanskrit dēva god (see deva n.). Compare mamuque n. and manucode n.
Obsolete.
A bird of paradise.The name Manucodiata was adopted as a genus name by Brisson in 1760 (see manucode n.).
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Paradisaeidae (bird of paradise) > genus Manucodia (manucode)
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1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyage rounde Worlde in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 229v These Moores are of opinion that these byrdes coomme frome the heauenlye Paradyse, and therfore caule them Manucoodiata [read Manuccodiata], that is the byrdes of god.
1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 115 They name that birde Manucodiata, that is to say, the birde of God.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 538 The Moores..call them Manucodiata, or holy birds.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii Manucadite, the bird of Paradise.
1656 J. Tradescant Musæum Tradescantianum 4 Birds of Paradise, or Manucodiata; whereof divers sorts, some with, some without leggs.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 111 The Manucodiata or Bird of Paradise.
1738 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds III. 9 The Manucodiata, or Bird of Paradise.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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