Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of various cam-pophagine birds of the genus Pericrocotus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A singing bird of India of the family
Campephagidæ .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of about 13
species ofpasserine birds in thegenus Pericrocotus of the cuckoo-shrike family of southern and easternAsia .
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Harpactes Reinwardti), the gorgeous little minivet flycatcher
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The only other dictionary I could find it in was, of course, the OED, whose entry reads in its entirety:minivet 'mInIvIt.
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The solitary denizen of the plains -- the little minivet
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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These are the wood-shrike, the minivet and the cuckoo-shrike.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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The species commonly seen about our hill stations are _Pericrocotus speciosus_, the Indian scarlet minivet, and _P. brevirostris_, the short-billed minivet.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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It is impossible to mistake a minivet, but it is quite another matter to say to which species any particular minivet belongs.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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The common minivet of the Nilgiris is the orange minivet
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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In these were included the "elegant yellow-and-green trogon (_Harpactes Reinwardti_); the gorgeous little minivet flycatcher (_Pericrocotus miniatus_), which looks like a flame of fire as it flutters among the bushes; and the rare and curious black-and-crimson oriole (_Analcipus sanguinolentus_)."
A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore 1898
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Reinwardti), the gorgeous little minivet flycatcher (Pericrocotus miniatus), which looks like a flame of fire as it flutters among the bushes, and the rare and curious black and crimson oriole (Analcipus sanguinolentus), all of these species which are found only in Java, and even seem to be confined to its western portion.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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