noun
(also paradiseid)
Ornithology A bird of the family Paradisaeidae; a bird of paradise.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Isaac Funk (1839–1912), publisher and reformer. From scientific Latin Paradisaeidae, family name from Paradisaea, genus name (Linnaeus Systema Naturae; from post-classical Latin paradisus) + -idae.
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