munia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: munias
form: minia
Etymology: From Hindi मुनिया (muniyā).
Senses: examples: text: It is said, however, occasionally though rarely to eat insects, and Layard has related how an individual, kept in captivity, killed and swallowed small birds (Munias), its fellow-captives.
ref: 1895, Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford, Birds, volume 3, page 88:
text: Munias are smaller than sparrows; they have pointed short tails, and live in flocks, building large communal nests shared by several breeding pairs.
ref: 2000, Tara Gandhi, Birds and Plant Regeneration, page 76:
text: Okanoya (2002) argues that the Bengalese finch has a much more 'complex' song than the munia. As mentioned earlier, his measure of complexity is the song linearity. He finds that the average song linearity of the munia is around 0.8 while the Bengalese finch song has a value of around 0.4.
ref: 2010, Graham R. S. Ritchie, Simon Kirby, “20: A Possible Role for Selective Masking in the Evolution of Complex, Learned Communication Systems”, in Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Angelo Cangelosi, editors, Emergence of Communication and Language, page 398:
glosses: Any of certain estrildid finches of the genera Lonchura (most instances) and Amandava (two species).
Synonyms: sense: finch of genus Lonchura
word: mannikin
sense: finch of genus Lonchura
english: generally separate, with some overlap
translation: generally separate, with some overlap
word: silverbill
sense: finch of genus Amandava
word: avadavat
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lonchura monticola
word: alpine munia
taxonomic: Lonchura melaena
word: Bismarck munia
taxonomic: Lonchura bicolor
word: black-and-white munia
taxonomic: Lonchura teerinki
word: black-breasted munia
taxonomic: Lonchura molucca
word: black-faced munia
taxonomic: Lonchura stygia
word: black munia
taxonomic: Lonchura kelaarti
word: black-throated munia
taxonomic: Lonchura cucullata
word: bronze munia
taxonomic: Lonchura nigriceps
word: brown-backed munia
taxonomic: Lonchura atricapilla
word: chestnut munia
taxonomic: Lonchura pallidiventer
word: cream-bellied munia
taxonomic: Lonchura fuscans
word: dusky munia
taxonomic: Lonchura quinticolor
word: five-coloured munia
taxonomic: Lonchura grandis
word: grand munia
taxonomic: Amandava formosa
word: green munia
taxonomic: Lonchura vana
word: grey-banded munia
taxonomic: Lonchura nevermanni
word: grey-crowned munia
taxonomic: Lonchura leucogastroides
word: Javan munia
taxonomic: Lonchura fringilloides
word: magpie munia
taxonomic: Lonchura hunsteini
word: mottled munia
taxonomic: Lonchura niggerima
word: New Hanover munia
taxonomic: Lonchura forbesi
word: New Ireland munia
taxonomic: Lonchura pallida
word: pale-headed munia
taxonomic: Amandava amandava
word: red munia
taxonomic: Lonchura punctulata
word: scaly-breasted munia
taxonomic: Lonchura montana
word: snow mountain munia
taxonomic: Lonchura tristissima
word: streak-headed munia
taxonomic: Lonchura malacca
word: tricoloured munia
taxonomic: Lonchura leucogastra
word: white-bellied munia
taxonomic: Lonchura ferruginosa
word: white-capped munia
taxonomic: Lonchura maja
word: white-headed munia
taxonomic: Lonchura striata
word: white-rumped munia
taxonomic: Lonchura malabarica
word: white-throated munia