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MINA
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Irregular inflected form: minae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical Asian starlings
Synonyms:
mina; minah; myna; myna bird; mynah; mynah bird
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mina" is a kind of...):
starling (gregarious birds native to the Old World)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mina"):
Acridotheres tristis; crested myna (dark brown crested bird of southeastern Asia)
grackle; Gracula religiosa; hill myna; Indian grackle (glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech)
Context examples:
Mina is sleeping now, calmly and sweetly like a little child.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mina has been bright and cheerful all the evening.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mina if she survive is my sole heir.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mina is now sleeping like a little child; it is a wonderful thing that her faculty of sleep remains to her in the midst of her terrible trouble.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mina looked at him appealingly as she asked:—"But why need we seek him further, when he is gone away from us?"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mina sat rigid, and the Professor stood staring at her fixedly; the rest of us hardly dared to breathe.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mina gazed at him fixedly for a few minutes, during which my own heart beat like a trip hammer, for I felt that some crisis was at hand.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mina took a growing interest in everything and I was rejoiced to see that the exigency of affairs was helping her to forget for a time the terrible experience of the night.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mina is dressing, and I shall call at the hotel in a few minutes and bring him over....
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mina is fast asleep, and looks a little too pale; her eyes look as though she had been crying.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
