noun
definition
Any of several small South American passerine birds of the family Pipridae.
noun
definition
A little man (sometimes as a term of endearment).
synonyms
definition
A three-dimensional figure, dummy or effigy representing a man or person.
noun
definition
A dummy, or life-size model of the human body, used for the fitting or displaying of clothes
definition
A jointed model of the human body used by artists, especially to demonstrate the arrangement of drapery
definition
An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching of e.g. CPR
definition
A person who models clothes
Examples of manakin in a Sentence
Next he places the parrots (q.v.), and then the vast assemblage of " Passereaux "- which he declares to be all of one type, even genera like Pipra (manakin, q.v.) and Pitta - and concludes with the somewhat heterogeneous conglomeration of forms, beginning with Cypselus (swift, q.v.), that so many systematists have been accustomed to call Picariae, though to them as a group he assigns no name.
Bird highlights here included streaked flycatcher, white shouldered tanager, crested guan and orange collared manakin.
Army ant swarms are found frequently, sometimes attended by Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo, and there are many manakin leks right beside the road.