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Noun: manakin  ma-nu-kin
  1. Any of numerous small bright-coloured birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behaviour
     
  2. [non-standard] A woman who wears clothes to display fashions
    "she was too fat to be a manakin";
    - mannequin [archaic], manikin, mannikin, fashion model, model
     
  3. [non-standard] A life-size dummy used to display clothes
    - mannequin, manikin, mannikin, form

Sounds like: manikin, mann

Derived forms: manakins

Type of: aid, assistant, dummy, help, helper, supporter, tyrannid

Part of: genus Pipra, Pipra

Encyclopedia: Manakin, Virginia