ptloris paradisea

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   velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail

   Synonymsriflebird

   Broaderbird of paradise

Questions about ptloris paradisea

What does ptloris paradisea mean?

ptloris paradisea means "velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail".

What is another word for ptloris paradisea?

Close synonyms include riflebird. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ptloris paradisea a common word?

ptloris paradisea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.