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paradise pie

paradise pie noun: astrapia.

Noun

paradise pie (plural paradise pies)

  1. (obsolete) astrapia.
    • Among these was a pair of the superb Paradise Pie (Astrapia nigra) in tolerable preservation.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 319

Forms of paradise pie

pluralparadise pies

Origin of paradise pie

From paradise (“as in, bird-of-paradise”) + pie (“magpie”).

Questions about paradise pie

What does paradise pie mean?
Paradise pie means astrapia.
What part of speech is paradise pie?
Paradise pie is a noun.
What is the plural of paradise pie?
The plural of paradise pie is paradise pies.

Words near paradise pie in the dictionary

  1. paradise nuts
  2. paradise on earth
  3. Paradise Park
  4. paradise parrot
  5. paradise parrots
  6. paradise pie
  7. paradise pies
  8. paradise shelduck
  9. paradise shelducks
  10. paradise skipper
  11. paradise syndrome

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