Definition of Manumea

1. a Samoan pigeon [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Manumea

manufacturesses
manufacturies
manufacturing
manufacturing business
manufacturing plant
manufacturings
manufactury
manuhiri
manuka
manukas
manul
manuls
manumatic
manumation
manumations
manumea (current term)
manumeas
manumise
manumised
manumises
manumising
manumission
manumissions
manumit
manumits
manumitted
manumitter
manumitting
manumittor
manumotive

Literary usage of Manumea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Utopia by Thomas More (1869)
"... manumea* That you haue found nought in my handes. Fewe fuche Samuels are in Englande nor in the world. Why dyd Samuell thys ? marye to purge hym felfe, ..."

2. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1896)
"Rev. S. Ella 145 Names and Movements of the Heavenly Bodies, according to the Samoans. Rev. JB Stair 146 The manumea; or, Red Bird of Samoa. Bev. ..."

3. Wild Life in Southern Seas by Louis Becke (1897)
""Only let me go with you," she pleaded, " and I shall be as silent as the dead. When we get to Apia, is not my cousin, manumea, there ? ..."

4. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1874)
"or, more properly, the "little dodo," the manumea of Samoa, long supposed to be extinct, is found only in this group. It is a timid bird, lonely in its ..."

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