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bird of paradise (medicine) and sanders(1) (iou)


bird of paradise (medicine)


bird of paradise
<ornithology> The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting new Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colours, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.

The Great emerald (Paradisea apoda) and the Lesser emerald (P. Minor) furnish many of the plumes used as ornaments by ladies; the Red is P. Rubra or sanguinea; the Golden is Parotia aurea or sexsetacea; the King is Cincinnurus regius. The name is also applied to the longer-billed birds of another related group (Epimachinae) from the same region. The Twelve-wired (Seleucides alba) is one of these. See Paradise bird, and Note under Apod.

Source: Websters Dictionary


sanders(1) (iou)



sanders noun1. . ME.
[Old French sandre var. of sandle SANDAL noun2.]
More fully sanders-wood. Any of the several kinds of sandalwood or of the trees yielding such wood. Now rare exc. in red sanders(-wood), (the wood of) the red sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalinus.