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minivet

[ min-uh-vet ]

noun

  1. any of several small, long-tailed Asian cuckoo-shrikes of the genus Pericrocotus, having in the male black and red and in the female black and orange plumage.


minivet

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noun

  1. any brightly coloured tropical Asian cuckoo shrike of the genus Pericrocotus
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of minivet1

First recorded in 1860–65; origin uncertain
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of minivet1

C19: of unknown origin
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"That's a Minivet; she covers her nest with lichens so that on a lichen-covered limb it looks like a knot."

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This minivet was common at the Cocoa Research Station, where it usually inhabited the shade trees in the cocoa groves.

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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.

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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.

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I have never seen a minivet on the ground.

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