bowerbird
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ərˌbɜrd
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| —n | |
| 1. | any of various songbirds of the family Ptilonorhynchidae, of Australia and New Guinea. The males build bower-like display grounds in the breeding season to attract the females |
| 2. | informal chiefly (Austral) a person who collects miscellaneous objects |
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Bowerbird
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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And a third species, the satin bowerbird, likes to find things in a particular shade of blue to place outside his bower.
Dalrymple had constructed his southern continent--his bowerbird structure--with gleanings from many sources.
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