minivet

noun

min·​i·​vet

ˈminəˌvet

plural -s

: any of several cuckoo shrikes that belong to the Asiatic genus Pericrocotus and that are brilliantly colored with the males chiefly black and scarlet and the females usually gray and yellow

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