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Papageno (4915 words)
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Animal-ine, by Papageno
Adjectives, by nkocharh
Of Rainbows, by elsabet
Things Avian, by reesetee
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From the OED:
(a.) Resembling the neck or tail of a peacock in colouring or iridescence.
1991 R. CONDON Final Addiction 211
He was put down on a beach which overlooked a pavonine sea on which slumped the guilty tanker, Bergquist, impaled on its villainous reef.