bird-of-paradise
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nounDefinition of BIRD-OF-PARADISE
: an ornamental plant (Strelitzia reginae of the family Strelitziaceae) native to southern Africa that has scapes terminating in a horizontal bract from which emerges an upright flower having three orange or yellow sepals and three irregular blue petals
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circa 1884
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