manakin


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Synonyms for manakin

a woman who wears clothes to display fashions

a life-size dummy used to display clothes

any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior

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MGCCC's commitment to further health care education on the postsecondary level has not come cheaply Jasperson did not have a hard figure for the center's overall cost, but said each manakin, which is essentially a robot, can cost nearly $100,000.
London, June 16 ( ANI ): The male club-winged manakin, the only bird known to sing with its wings, contains some secrets of its performance in its bones, researchers have discovered.
Story 1: Three years ago, Professor Vladimir Manakin, a Ukrainian Fulbrighter, came to UIC.
Water utility Aqua America Inc (NYSE:WTR) reported on Friday the completion of the acquisition of the wastewater system assets of Manakin Water and Sewerage Corporation and Manakin Farms Inc in Goochland County, Virginia for a purchase price of USD80,000.
Pugh beat Gary Manakin in straight sets and Peter Mann 3-1, while Dyson also took out Manakin and Richard Priestley, but surprisingly went down to Mann after holding a lead in the final game.
dissertation Claremont Graduate University (no date noted), Lambert (US history, Azusa Pacific U., California) places the 1700 settlement of Huguenot refugees from Catholic France at Manakin Town in the British royal colony of Virginia in the context of the refugee resettlement attempts of a wide-ranging Protestant International.
I have a favourite video clip that I show my students of the swallow-tailed manakin. It's the avian equivalent of tango and, not surprisingly, these birds are found in Argentina."
"Or there's the manakin bird from south America, where two males dance together to attract females.
Sharp violin-like sounds come from the male club-winged manakin, a tiny songbird from the Andean cloud forest in South America, yet not all come from his beak.
Scholarworks will be hosted by the CSU Chancellor's office and will be running DSpace and Manakin. DSpace is a an open-source platform for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works in digital format, including text, still images, moving images, mpegs and data sets (About DSpace, n.d.).
ROCK 'n' roll helps people stay in control according to Bahraini singer songwriter Shaikh Hassan bin Rashid Al Khalifa, frontman of indie rock band Manakin.