Meaning of mannikin in English:

noun

• 1A small waxbill of the Old World tropics, typically brown, black, and white and often kept as a cage bird.

  Genus Lonchura, family Estrildidae: many species

  ‘Three baby bronze mannikins sit atop their grass nest while mother and father show concern at the entrance perch.’

• 2

  variant spelling of manikin