Any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior

• A life-size dummy used to display clothes
• A woman who wears clothes to display fashions

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manakin \Man"a*kin\, n. A dwarf. See Manikin . --Shak.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; "she was too fat to be a mannequin" [syn: mannequin , manikin , mannikin , fashion model , model ] a life-size dummy used to display clothes [syn: mannequin , manikin , mannikin , form ] any of numerous ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several small, passerine, South American birds of the family Pipridae.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The manakins are a clade ( Pipridae ) of unique small suboscine passerine birds . The group contains some 60 species distributed through the American tropics. The name is from Middle Dutch mannekijn "little man" (also the source of the different bird name ...